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Foreigner

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

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.

Foreignness

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

Forejudge

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

A judgment by which one is deprived or put out of a right or thing in question.

Foreknow

To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

Foreknowledge

Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

Forel

To bind with a forel.

Foreland

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

Foreleader

One who leads others by his example; a guide.

Forelock

The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

Foreman

The first or chief man The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker. The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

Foremilk

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

Foremost

First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.

Foremostly

In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.

Forenoon

The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.

Forenotice

Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.

Forensic

An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.

Foreordain

To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.

Foreordination

Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

forepole

One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead on top of a set of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Forequoted

Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.

Forereach

To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.

Foreread

To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.

Forerun

To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).

Forerunner

A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.

Foresail

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast. The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.

Foresee

To have or exercise foresight.

foreseeable

being such as may reasonable be anticipated; as, foreseeable costs were well within the budget.

Foreseen

Provided; in case that; on condition that.

Foreshadow

To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

foreshore

the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks.

Foreshorten

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

Foreshot

In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.

Foreshow

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

Foreside

The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

Foresight

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.

Foresighted

Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.

Foresignify

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.

Foreskin

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

Foreskirt

The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train.

Forest

To cover with trees or wood.

Forestaff

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff.

Forestage

A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.

Forestal

Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.

Forestall

To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

Forestaller

One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.

Forestay

A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

forested

covered with forest; as, efforts to protect forested lands of the northwest.

Forester

One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

Forestry

The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

Foretaste

To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.

Foretaster

One who tastes beforehand, or before another.

Forethought

A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.

Foretime

The past; the time before the present.

Foretoken

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.

Foretop

The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

Forever

Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.

Forevouched

Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance.

Forewarn

To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.

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