What is another word for "van"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "van": advance, advanced, ahead, anterior, anteriority, beak, before, bend, bow, brow, coin, come, confront, countenance, disc, disk, divine, est, facade, face, facia, first, fore, foreground, forehead, foremost, forepart, forwards, frons, front, frontage, frontal, frontispiece, guard, imago, indices, jib, lee, line, medal.