Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfoot.

Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

Having no feet.

A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick.

One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.

small and of little importance; as, a footling gesture.

a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a military barracks).

without ties to a particular location; free to roam; wandering.

A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.

Art or skill of a footman.

A footprint; a track or vestige.

A note of reference or comment at the foot{4} of a page.

A walking pace or step.

A highwayman or robber on foot.

A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

See Footboard (a).

The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, /Footprints of the Creator./

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.

The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.

The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

The stirrup of a woman's saddle.

The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.

The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone.

A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.

A passage for pedestrians only.

Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.

A stupid fellow; a fogy.

One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.

A petty fop.

The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.

To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

One who forages.

A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

Having small opening, or foramina.

One of the Foraminifera.

An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.

Having small openings, or foramina.

Having foramina; full of holes; porous.

In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.

To pillage; to ravage.

One who makes or joins in a foray.

imp. of Forbid.

To bathe.

To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubtful propriety.

The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.

Forbearing.

One who forbears.

Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.

To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.

The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

Prohibited; interdicted.

In a forbidden or unlawful manner.

One who forbids.

Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

Very black.

imp. of Forbear.

p. p. of Forbear.

To bruise sorely or exceedingly.

Near; hard by; along; past.

To cut completely; to cut off.

To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

a method of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings.

Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.

Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.

physical energy or intensity.

Having little or no force; feeble.

Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.

The act of forcing; compulsion.

A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

One who, or that which, forces or drives.

Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.

Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.

The quality of being forcible.

In a forcible manner.

The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.

Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.

Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.

To cut completely; to cut off.

To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.

Capable of being forded.

Without a ford.

To destroy; to undo; to ruin.

Undone; ruined.

To drive about; to drive here and there.

Utterly drunk; very drunk.

Entirely dry; withered.

To dwindle away; to disappear.

Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

The evening between twilight and bedtime.

Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.

The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast; the mast next above the foremast. See Ship.

the topsail on a foremast. See Sail.

To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.

To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.

To allege or cite before.

To set, order, or appoint, beforehand.

Previous appointment; preordinantion.

That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.

The breast beam of a loom.

An ancestor. See Forbear.

Prognostication; presage.

The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

One who forebodes.

Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

In a foreboding manner.

A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.

Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.

One who forecast.

The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.

Chosen beforehand.