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Fore, adv. [AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for. See , and cf. , .] 1. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
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2. Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. Shak.
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3. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
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Coloq. Fore and aft (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Coloq. Fore-and-aft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See , , .
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Fore (fōr), a. [See , adv.] Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
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The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. Southey.
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☞ Fore is much used adjectively or in composition.
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Coloq. Fore bay , a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. -- Coloq. Fore body (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguished from middle body and after body. -- Coloq. Fore boot , a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. -- Coloq. Fore bow , the pommel of a saddle. Knight. -- Coloq. Fore cabin , a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. -- Coloq. Fore carriage . (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. -- Coloq. Fore course (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under . -- Coloq. Fore door . Same as . -- Coloq. Fore edge , the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. -- Coloq. Fore elder , an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] -- Coloq. Fore end . (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning.
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I have . . . paid
More pious debts to heaven, than in all
The fore end of my time. Shak.
(b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. -- Coloq. Fore girth , a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. -- Coloq. Fore hammer , a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. -- Coloq. Fore leg , one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. -- Coloq. Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. -- Coloq. Fore piece , a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. -- Coloq. Fore plane , a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight. -- Coloq. Fore reading , previous perusal. [Obs.] Hales. -- Coloq. Fore rent , in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. -- Coloq. Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See . -- Coloq. Fore shore . (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. -- Coloq. Fore sight , that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. -- Coloq. Fore tackle (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. -- Coloq. Fore topmast . (Naut.) See , in the Vocabulary. -- Coloq. Fore wind , a favorable wind. [Obs.]
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Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. Sandys.
-- Coloq. Fore world , the antediluvian world. [R.] Southey.
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Fore, n. The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
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Coloq. At the fore (Naut.), at the fore royal masthead; -- said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc. -- Coloq. To the fore . (a) In advance; to the front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use. (b) In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. [Irish] “While I am to the fore.” W. Collins. “How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore?” Thackeray.
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Fore, prep. Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before. [Obs.]
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Foreadmonish (?), v. t. To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event. Bp. Hall.
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Foreadvise (?), v. t. To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event. Shak.
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Foreallege (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forealleged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forealleging (?).] To allege or cite before. Fotherby.
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Foreappoint (?), v. t. To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. Sherwood.
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Foreappointment (?), n. Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood.
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Forearm (?), v. t. To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.
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Forearm (?), n. (Anat.) That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
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Forebeam (?), n. The breast beam of a loom.
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Forebear (?), n. An ancestor. See .
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Forebode (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See v. t.] 1. To foretell.
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2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
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His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson.
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Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton.
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I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
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Forebode, v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur.
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If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.
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Forebode, n. Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]
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Forebodement (?), n. The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
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Foreboder (?), n. One who forebodes.
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Foreboding, n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
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Forebodingly, adv. In a foreboding manner.
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Forebrace (?), n. (Naut.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
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Forebrain (?), n. (Anat.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See .
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Foreby (?), prep. [Fore + by.] Near; hard by; along; past. See . Spenser.
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Forecast (?), v. t. 1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
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He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24.
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2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for; as, to forecast the weather; to forecast prices.
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It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. L'Estrange.
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Forecast, v. i. To contrive or plan beforehand.
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If it happen as I did forecast. Milton.
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Forecast (?), n. Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
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He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. Addison.
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2. A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast.
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His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. Prescott.
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Forecaster (?), n. One who forecast. Johnson.
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forecasting n. The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.
Syn. -- prediction, foretelling.
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Forecastle (?; sailors say �), n. (Naut.) (a) A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. (b) That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. (c) In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
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Forechosen (?), a. Chosen beforehand.
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Forecited (?), a. Cited or quoted before or above. Arbuthnot.
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Foreclose (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreclosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foreclosing (?).] [F. forclos, p. p. of forclore to exclude; OF. fors, F. hors, except, outside (fr. L. foris outside) + F. clore to close. See , and , v. t.] To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
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The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew.
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Coloq. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- Coloq. To foreclose a mortgage , (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.
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Foreclosure (?; 135), n. The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
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Foreconceive (?), v. t. To preconceive; to imagine beforehand. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Foredate (?), v. t. To date before the true time; to antedate.
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Foredeck (?), n. (Naut.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.
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Foredeem (?), v. t. To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] Udall.
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Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you
An idle meteor. J. Webster.
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Foredeem, v. i. [Cf. .] To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.]
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Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come. Genevan Test.
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Foredesign (? or ?), v. t. To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
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Foredetermine (?), v. t. To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.
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Foredispose (?), v. t. To bestow beforehand. [R.]
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King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.
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Foredoom (?), v. t. [Cf. .] To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
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Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.
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Foredoom (?), n. Doom or sentence decreed in advance. “A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult.” Southey.
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Forefather (?; 277), n. One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
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Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke.
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Coloq. Forefathers' Day , the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.
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Forefeel (?), v. t. To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.]
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As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman.
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Forefence (?), n. Defense in front. [Obs.]
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Forefend (?), v. t. [OE. forfenden; pref. for- + fenden to fend. See , v. t.] To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See .
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God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history. Landor.
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It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty. I. Taylor.
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Forefinger (?), n. The finger next to the thumb; the index finger.
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Foreflow (?), v. t. To flow before. [Obs.]
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Forefoot (?), n. 1. One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
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2. (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
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Forefront (?), n. Foremost part or place.
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Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam. xi. 15.
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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp.
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Foregame (?), n. A first game; first plan. [Obs.] Whitlock.
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Foreganger (?), n. [Prop., a goer before cf. G. voregänger. See , and .] (Naut.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer line may be attached. Totten.
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Foregather (?), v. i. Same as .
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Foregift (?), n. (Law) A premium paid by a lessee when taking his lease.
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Foregleam (?), n. An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
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The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.
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Forego (?), v. t. [imp. Forewent 2; p. p. Foregone (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Foregoing.] [See .] 1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
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Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert.
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2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.
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All my patrimony,,
If need be, I am ready to forego. Milton.
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Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. Keble.
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[He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson.
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☞ Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with , to go before.
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Forego, v. t. [AS. foregān; fore + gān to go; akin to G. vorgehen to go before, precede. See , v. i.] To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
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Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone. Wordsworth.
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For which the very mother's face forewent
The mother's special patience. Mrs. Browning.
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Coloq. Foregone conclusion , a conclusion which has preceded argument or examination; a predetermined conclusion.
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Foregoer (?), n. 1. One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor; a progenitor.
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2. A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.]
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Foregoer, n. [Etymologically forgoer.] One who forbears to enjoy.
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foregone adj. past; -- used of time; as, foregone summers. Contrassted to present.
Syn. -- bygone, bypast, departed, gone.
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foregone conclusion n. An inevitable outcome; a certain result; a certainty.
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Foreground (?), n. On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. , n., 6.
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Foreguess (?), v. t. To conjecture. [Obs.]
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Foregut (?), n. (Anat.) The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, or to the entrance of the bile duct.
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Forehand (?), n. 1. All that part of a horse which is before the rider. Johnson.
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2. The chief or most important part. Shak.
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3. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
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And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . .
Had the forehand and vantage of a king. Shak.
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Forehand, a. Done beforehand; anticipative.
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And so extenuate the forehand sin. Shak.
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Forehanded, a. 1. Early; timely; seasonable. “Forehanded care.” Jer. Taylor.
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2. Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer. [U.S.]
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3. Formed in the forehand or fore parts.
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A substantial, true-bred beast, bravely forehanded. Dryden.
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Forehead (?; 277), n. 1. The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
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2. The aspect or countenance; assurance.
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To look with forehead bold and big enough
Upon the power and puissance of the king. Shak.
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3. The front or fore part of anything.
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Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.
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So rich advantage of a promised glory
As smiles upon the forehead of this action. Shak.
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Forehear (?), v. i. & t. To hear beforehand.
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Forehearth (?), n. (Metal.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
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Forehend (?), v. t. See . [Obs.]
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Forehew (?), v. t. To hew or cut in front. [Obs.] Sackville.
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Forehold (?), n. (Naut.) The forward part of the hold of a ship.
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Foreholding (?), n. Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
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Forehook (?), n. (Naut.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
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Foreign (?), a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. door. See , and cf. , , , .] 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. “Foreign worlds.” Milton.
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2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. “Domestic and foreign writers.” Atterbury.
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Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.
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3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
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This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.
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4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
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Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died. Shak.
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Coloq. Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Coloq. Foreign bill , a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See , n., 4. Kent. Story. -- Coloq. Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. -- Coloq. Foreign office , that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.
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