What is another word for "vanguard"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "vanguard": advance, advanced, aforementioned, aforesaid, ahead, antecedence, antecedency, antecedent, anteposition, anterior, anteriority, ball, beak, before, bend, bow, brow, coin, come, coming, confront, countenance, dance, disc, disk, divine, est, facade, face, facia, fashion, first, fore, foreground, forehead, foremost, forepart, former, forwards, frons.