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An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff.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

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.

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.

See Forcarve, v. t.

The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.

Having no fork.

One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forked. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.

p. p. of Forleave.

To lie in wait for; to ambush.

To leave off wholly.

To give up wholly.

To lose utterly.

To give up; to leave; to abandon.

See Forelie.

imp. pl. p. p. of Forlese.

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

In a forlorn manner.

State of being forlorn.

Same as Forlie.

To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

being a matter of form only; lacking substance.

Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.

A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.

An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.

The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.

One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.

a set of procedures required to make a transaction official.