Both Uses of
frontier
in
Moby Dick
- In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced, the occasional sudden frantic spectacles in the distance evinced the activity of the other boats, still engaged in drugging the whales on the frontier of the host; or possibly carrying on the war within the first circle, where abundance of room and some convenient retreats were afforded them.†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
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(frontier as in: the frontier of brain science) the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field