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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Fōre'skin, n. p. 533(Anat.) The skin that covers the glans penis; the prepuce.Fōre'skirt, n. p. 533The loose and pendulous part of a coat before. Shak.Fōre-slăck′, v. t. p. 533To neglect by idleness; not to seize or improve promptly; to foreslow; to delay. [Obs.] Spenser.Fōre'sleeve, n. p. 533That part of a sleeve between the elbow and wrist.Fōre-slōw′, v. t. p. 533To make slow; to delay; to hinder; to impede; to obstruct. [Obs.] No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax. 2. To be dilatory about; to procrastinate; to put off; to…Fōre-slōw’, v. i. p. 533To be dilatory; to loiter. [Obs.] Foreslow no longer; make we hence amain. Shak.Fōre-spēak', v. t. p. 533To foresay; to foreshow; to foretell; to predict. My mother was half a witch; never any thing that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bewitch; to enchant. Drayton. 3. To forspeak, or…Fōre'speak-ing, n. p. 533A prediction; also, a preface. [Obs.] Camden. Huloet.Fōre'speech, n. p. 533A preface. [Obs.] Sherwood.Fōre-spĕnt', a. p. 533Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. Shak. 2. Past; spent; as, life forespent. Spenser.Fōre-spür'rer, n. p. 533One who rides before. [Obs.] Shak.Fôr'est, n. p. 533An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated. 2. (Eng. Law.) A large extent or…Fôr'est, v. t. p. 533To cover with trees or wood.Fôr'est, a. p. 533Pertaining to a forest; sylvan; rustic. Forest laws, laws for governing and regulating forests, and preserving game. [Eng.]Fōre'staff p. 533m. (Naut.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, and now superseded by the sextant. Brande.Fôr'est-age, n. p. 533(Eng. Law.) (a.) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. (b.) An ancient service paid by foresters to the king.Fôr'est-al, a. p. 533Pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.Fōre-stall′, v. t. p. 533To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate. Why need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? Milton. 2. To take possession of in advance of something else…Fōre-stall'er, n. p. 534One who forestalls; a person who purchases provisions before they come to the fair or market, with a view to raise the price. Locke.Fōre'stāy, n. p. 534(Naut.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head toward the bowsprit end, to support the mast.Fŏr'est-er, n. p. 534One who has charge of a forest; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game. 2. An inhabitant of a forest; a sylvan. Shak. 3. A forest-tree. Evelyn.Fōre'stĭck, n. p. 534The front stick of a wood fire.Fŏr'est-ry, n. p. 534The art of forming or managing forests. [Rare.]Fŏr'est-tree, n. p. 534A tree of the forest, not a fruit tree.Fōre'swart or Fōre'swat, a. p. 534Exhausted by heat. [Obs.] Sidney.Fōre'tāste, n. p. 534A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation; pregustation.Fōre-tāste', v. t. p. 534To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of something; to anticipate. 2. To taste before another. Foretasted fruit Profaned first by the serpent. Milton.Fōre'tāst-er, n. p. 534One who tastes beforehand, or before another.Fōre-tēach', v. t. p. 534To teach or instruct beforehand. [Obs.] Spenser.Fōre-tĕll', v. t. p. 534To predict; to tell before occurrence; to prophesy; to foretoken; to foreshow. For many men that stumble at the threshold Are well foretold that danger lurks within. Shak. Deeds then undone my…Fōre-tĕll', v. i. p. 534To utter prediction or prophecy. All the prophets . . . have likewise foretold of these days. Acts iii. 24.Fōre-tĕll’er, n. p. 534One who predicts or prophesies; a foreshower. Boyle.Fōre-thĭnk', v. t. p. 534To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically does forethink thy fall. Shak. 2. To contrive beforehand. Bp. Hall.Fōre-thĭnk', v. i. p. 534To contrive beforehand. [Obs.]Fōre'thōught, a. p. 534Prepense. “Fore-thought malice.” Bacon.Fōre'thôught, n. p. 534A thinking beforehand; anticipation; prescience; premeditation. L'Estrange. 2. Provident care; forecast. A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom. I. Taylor.Fōre’thōught-ful, a. p. 534Having forethought. [Rare.]Fōre-tō'ken, v. t. p. 534To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.Fōre'tō-ken, n. p. 534Prognostic; previous sign or omen. Sidney.Fōre'-tōoth, n. p. 534One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.Fōre'tōp, n. p. 534The hair on the forepart of the head. 2. That part of a head-dress that is forward; the top of a periwig. 3. (Naut.) The platform erected at the head of the foremast.Fōre-tōp'-māst, n. p. 534(Naut.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the foretop-gallant-mast.For-ēv'er, adv. p. 534To eternity; eternally; through endless ages. 2. At all times. ☞ In England, for and ever are usually written and printed as two separate words; but, in the United States, the general practice is to…Fōre-vouched', a. p. 534Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed before. Shak.Fōre'ward, n. p. 534The van; the front. My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak.Fōre-warn', v. t. p. 534To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance; to inform previously. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak. Forewarned in vain by the…Fōre-wāste', v. t. p. 534To forwaste. [Obs.] Gascoigne.Fōre-watched', a. p. 534Weary with watching. [Obs.] England's Helicon, 1614.Fōre-wēnd′, v. t. p. 534To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.Fōre'-wind, n. p. 534A favorable wind. Shak.Fōre-wish’, v. t. p. 534To wish beforehand. Knolles.Fore'-wit, n. p. 534A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste. [Obs.] Nor that the fore-wits, that would draw the rest Unto their liking, always like the best. B. Jonson.Fōre'-wom'an, n. p. 534A woman who is chief; a head woman. Tattler.Fōre-wōrn', p. a. p. 534Worn out; wast- ed; used up. [Obs.] “Old foreworn stories almost forgotten.” Brydges.Fôr'falt-üre, n. p. 534Forfeiture. [Obs.] Holinshed.Fôr'feit, a. p. 534Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. Shak. And his long tails were forfeit for a look. Dryden.Fôr’feit, n. p. 534An unjustifiable and malicious injury; a misdeed; a crime. [Obs. and rare.] To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. Berners. 2. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or…Fôr'feit, v. t. p. 534To lose, or lose the right to, by some fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an…Fôr'feit, v. i. p. 534To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal. [Obs. and rare.] And all this suffered our Lord Jesu Christ that never forfeited. Chaucer.Fôr'feit-a-ble, a. p. 534Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture. For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. Blackstone.