V. be in front, stand in front &c. adj.; front, face, confront; bend
forwards; come to the front, come to the fore. 
     Adj. fore, anterior, front, frontal. 
     Adv. before; in front, in the van, in advance; ahead, right ahead;
forehead, foremost; in the foreground, in the lee of; before one’s face, before one’s eyes; face to face, vis-a-vis; front a front. 
     Phr. formosa muta commendatio est [Lat][Syrus]; frons est animi janua
[Lat][Cicero]; “Human face divine” [Milton]; imago animi vultus est indices oculi [Lat][Cicero]; “sea of upturned faces” [Scott].

     #235.  Rear. —­ N. rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard;
background, hinterland.
     occiput[Anat], nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock,
posteriors, backside scut[obs3], breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone[obs3]; natch, natch bone.
     stern, poop, afterpart[obs3], heelpiece[obs3], crupper.
     wake; train &c. (sequence) 281.
     reverse; other side of the shield. 
     V. be behind &c. adv.; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear. 
     Adj. back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost[obs3]; postern,
posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal[obs3]. 
     Adv. behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one’s back; at the
heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back.
     after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost[obs3], aback, rearward. 
     Phr. ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio[It][obs3]; the other side of the
coin.

     #236.  Laterality. —­ N. laterality[obs3]; side, flank, quarter, lee;
hand; cheek, jowl, jole[obs3], wing; profile; temple, parietes[Lat], loin, haunch, hip; beam.
     gable, gable end; broadside; lee side.
     points of the compass; East, Orient, Levant; West; orientation. 
     V. be on one side &c. adv.; flank, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate. 
     Adj. lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting;
flanked; sideling.
     many sided; multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral. 
     Eastern; orient, oriental; Levantine; Western, occidental, Hesperian. 
     Adv. sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast,
alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl &c. (near) 197; to windward, to leeward; laterally &c. adj.; right and left; on her beam ends. 
     Phr. “his cheek the may of days outworn” [Shakespeare].

     #237.  Contraposition. —­ N. contraposition[obs3], opposition;
polarity; inversion &c. 218; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes; opposite poles, North and South.
     antonym, opposite (contrariety) 14. 
     V. be opposite &c. adj.; subtend. 
     Adj. opposite; reverse, inverse; converse, antipodal,
subcontrary[obs3]; fronting, facing, diametrically opposite. 
     Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic; Southern, Austral, antarctic. 
     Adv. over, over the way, over against; against; face to face, vis-a-
vis; as poles asunder.