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

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

In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.

A female ancestor.

To name or mention before.

Named before; aforenamed.

See Legislature.

Over against; opposite to.

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

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

Forensic.

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

Forensic.

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

To foreordain.

Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

Bygone.

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.

Holding or held formerly in possession.

To prize or rate beforehand.

Promised beforehand; pre/ngaged.

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

imp. of Forerun.

The first rank; the front.

To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.

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

Named or recited before.

Called to mind previously.

Right forward; onward.

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

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.

Mentioned before; aforesaid.

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.

To foretell.

To have or exercise foresight.

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

Provided; in case that; on condition that.

One who foresees or foreknows.

To seize beforehand.

To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

See Foreshow.

The fore part of a ship.

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

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

Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

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

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

One who predicts.

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

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

Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.

Foresighted.

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.

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

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

See Forslack.

The sleeve below the elbow.

To loiter. Same as Forslow.

To foretell; to predict.

A preface.

See Forspent.

One who rides before; a harbinger.

To cover with trees or wood.

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

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

Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.

To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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

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

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

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

Front stick of a hearth fire.

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

See Forswat.

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

One who tastes beforehand, or before another.

To teach beforehand.

To utter predictions.

One who predicts.

To contrive beforehand.

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

Having forethought.

The past; the time before the present.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.

imp. p. p. of Foretell.

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

Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.

Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance.

The van; the front.

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

See Forewaste.

To go before.

To wish beforehand.

A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.

To foreknow.

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.

A preface.

Worn out; wasted; used up.

pres. indic., 1st 3d pers. sing. of Forewite.

The lowermost yard on the foremast.

Forfeiture.

In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.

One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.

The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.

To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

Excessively alarmed; in great fear.

To incur a penalty; to transgress.

A pair of shears.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.

A natural family of insects incliuding the typical earwigs.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

imp. of Forgive.

To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge, v. t., 4.

A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

The act of forging metal into shape.