FOREHEND
FOREHEND', verb transitive To seize. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FOREHEW
FOREHEW', verb transitive To hew or cut in front.
FOREHOLDING
FOREHOLDING, noun Predictions; ominous forebodings; superstitious prognostications. [Not used.]
FOREHOOK
FO'REHOOK, noun In ships, a breast-hook; a piece of timber placed across the stem to unite the bows and strengthen the forepart of the ship.
FOREHORSE
FO'REHORSE, noun The horse in a team which goes foremost.
FOREIGN
FOREIGN, adjective for'an. [Latin foris, foras.]1. Belonging to another nation or country; alien; not of the country in which one resides; extraneous. We call every country fore...
FOREIGNER
FOR'EIGNER, noun for'aner. A person born in a foreign country, or without the country or jurisdiction of which one speaks. A Spaniard is a foreigner in France and England. All m...
FOREIGNNESS
FOR'EIGNNESS, noun for'anness. Remoteness; want of relation; as the foreignness of a subject from the main business.
FOREJUDGE
FOREJUDGE, verb transitive forjuj'.1. To prejudge; to judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof.2. In law, to expel from a court, for malpractice or non-appearance...
FOREJUDGMENT
FOREJUDG'MENT, noun Judgment previously formed.
FOREKNOW
FOREKNOW, verb intransitive [See Know.] To have previous knowledge of; to foresee.Who would the miseries of man foreknow?For whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be ...
FOREKNOWABLE
FOREKNOWABLE, adjective That may be foreknown.
FOREKNOWER
FOREKNOWER, noun One that foreknows.
FOREKNOWLEDGE
FOREKNOWL'EDGE, noun Knowledge of a thing before it happens; prescience.If I foreknew, foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.
FOREL
FOR'EL, noun A kind of parchment for the cover of books.
FORELAND
FO'RELAND, noun A promontory or cape; a point of land extending into the sea some distance from the line of the shore; a head land; as the North and South foreland in Kent, in E...
FORELAY
FORELA'Y, verb transitive1. To lay wait for; to entrap by ambush.2. To contrive antecedently.
FORELEADER
FORELE'ADER, noun One who leads others by his example.
FORELEND
FORELEND', verb transitive To lend or give beforehand.
FORELOCK
FO'RELOCK, noun1. The lock or hair that grows from the forepart of the head.Take time by the forelock2. In sea language, a little flat pointed wedge of iron, used at the end of ...
FORELOOK
FORELOOK', verb transitive To look beforehand or forward.
FOREMAN
FO'REMAN, noun1. The first or chief man; particularly, the chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.2. The chief man in a printing office or other establishment, who condu...
FOREMAST
FO'REMAST, noun The mast of a ship or other vessel which is placed in the forepart or forecastle, and carries the foresail and foretop-sail yards.Foremast-men, on board of ships...
FOREMEANT
FOREMEANT', adjective forement'. Intended beforehand.
FOREMEMBERED
FOREMEM'BERED, adjective Called to mind previously.
FOREMENTIONED
FOREMEN'TIONED, adjective Mentioned before; recited or written in a former part of the same writing or discourse.
FOREMOST
FO'REMOST, adjective1. First in place; most advanced; as the foremost troops of an army.2. First in dignity. In honor he held the foremost rank.