A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1531-1533, 1629
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Forebront, -brunt, n. [Bront n.] The van of an army or a charge. —1531 Bell. Boece II. 465.
Quhen the fore bront of the Scottis war slane, the Inglismen began to put the Scottis abak 1533 Id. Livy II. 205–6.
The fore brontis of thir Romane batallis 1629 Boyd Last B. 82.
Brauest captaines are put to the … forebrunt of the choake
