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.

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.

The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

To affect formality.

concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".

In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.

attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening.

The shape and size of a book or other printed publication; hence, its external form.

to set into a specific format; -- of printed matter or data recorded on a data soorage medium.

A salt of formic acid.

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.

First.

Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.

A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

The female of a hawk or falcon.

Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.

Creative; imaginative.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.

A thermosetting plastic material composed of melamine resin, having good heat and chemical resistance, and commonly used as the surface layer in laminated sheets employed as coverings for counter tops, walls, or furniture.

Like or pertaining to the family Formicarid/ or ant thrushes.

The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.

To creep or crawl like ants; swarm with, or as with, ants.