Foreby (prep.) Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.
Forecast (v. t.) To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
Forecast (v. t.) To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.
Forecast (v. i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.
Forecast (n.) Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
Forecast (n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.
Forecaster (n.) One who forecast.
Forecastle (n.) A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
Forecastle (n.) That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.
Forecastle (n.) In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
Forechosen (a.) Chosen beforehand.
Forecited (a.) Cited or quoted before or above.
Foreclosed (imp. & p. p.) of Foreclose
Foreclosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foreclose
Foreclose (v. t.) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
Foreclosure (n.) The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
Foreconceive (v. t.) To preconceive; to imagine beforehand.
Foredate (v. t.) To date before the true time; to antendate.
Foredeck (n.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.
Foredeem (v. t.) To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.
Foredeem (v. i.) To know or discover beforehand; to foretell.
Foredesign (v. t.) To plan beforehand; to intend previously.
Foredetermine (v. t.) To determine or decree beforehand.
Foredispose (v. t.) To bestow beforehand.
Foredoom (v. t.) To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
Foredoom (n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance.
Forefather (n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
Forefeel (v. t.) To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
Forefence (n.) Defense in front.
Forefend (v. t.) To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
Forefinger (n.) The finger next to the thumb; the index.
Foreflow (v. t.) To flow before.
Forefoot (n.) One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
Forefoot (n.) A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
Foreefront (n.) Foremost part or place.
Foregame (n.) A first game; first plan.
Foreganger (n.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached.
Foregather (v. i.) Same as Forgather.
Foregift (n.) A premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease.
Foregleam (n.) An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
Forewent 2 (imp.) of Forego
Foregone (p. p.) of Forego
Foregoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forego
Forego (v. t.) To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
Forego (v. t.) 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.
Forego (v. i.) To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
Foregoer (n.) One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.
Foregoer (n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
Foregoer (n.) One who forbears to enjoy.
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. Distance, n., 6.
Foreguess (v. t.) To conjecture.
Foregut (n.) The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.
Forehand (n.) All that part of a horse which is before the rider.
Forehand (n.) The chief or most important part.
Forehand (n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
Forehand (a.) Done beforehand; anticipative.
Forehanded (a.) Early; timely; seasonable.
Forehanded (a.) Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer.
Forehanded (a.) Formed in the forehand or fore parts.
Forehead (n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
Forehead (n.) The aspect or countenance; assurance.
Forehead (n.) The front or fore part of anything.
Forehear (v. i. & t.) To hear beforehand.
Forehearth (n.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
Forehend (v. t.) See Forhend.
Forehew (v. t.) To hew or cut in front.
Forehold (n.) The forward part of the hold of a ship.
Foreholding (n.) Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
Forehook (n.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
Foreign (a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
Foreign (a.) 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.
Foreign (a.) 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.
Foreign (a.) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
Foreigner (n.) A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
Foreignism (n.) Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
Foreignness (n.) The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
Forein (a.) Foreign.
Forejudge (v. t.) To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
Forejudge (v. t.) To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.
Forejudger (n.) A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
Forejudgment (n.) Prejudgment.
Foreknew (imp.) of Foreknow
Foreknown (p. p.) of Foreknow
Foreknowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foreknow
Foreknow (v. t.) To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
Foreknowa-ble (a.) That may be foreknown.
Foreknower (n.) One who foreknows.
Foreknowingly (adv.) With foreknowledge.
Foreknowledge (n.) Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Forel (n.) A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.
Forel (v. t.) To bind with a forel.
Foreland (n.) A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
Foreland (n.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Forelay (v. t.) To lay down beforehand.
Forelay (v. t.) To waylay. See Forlay.
Foreleader (n.) One who leads others by his example; aguide.
Forelend (v. t.) See Forlend.
Forelet (v. t.) See Forlet.
Forelie (v. i.) To lie in front of.