To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
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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 prediction; also, a preface.
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An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff.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.
To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
A small perennial herb, of the genus Myosotis (Myosotis scorpiodes, Myosotis palustris, Myosotis incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful bright blue or white flowers, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
In a forgetful manner.
The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
Inventive; productive; capable.
Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.
One who forgets; a heedless person.
By forgetting.
The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.
Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
One who forgives.
Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.
a tendency to be kind and forgiving.
To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
imp. p. p. of Forget.
p. p. of Forget.
To harass; to torment; to distress.
To seize upon.
Foreign; alien.
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
The act of forisfamiliating.
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
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