FOR 
E-BAY of a Lock, on canals, is the breaft or 
front SL Caledonian Reports, 1806, p. 12. 
FORECLOSED, in our Ancient Law Books, fignifies 
barred, fhut out, or excluded for ever ; as, when the equity 
of redemption on eee is barred. See Eg uITY of 
ee pe and Morrcace. 
EF. > Or ‘Fousrexs, in our Old Writers, i is 
a ta sree of provifion one in- ‘fairs or market 
before the. Te $ purveyors are eae with neceffaries . 
him. The word is Saxon, compounded of fore, ante, and 
Sangens aa 
FORE FIELD, in Mining, fignifies the face or further 
part of the wor th or — fhaft o 
ine. Sometimes this is called the ftool or b 
FORE E-FLANK, the name of a point in pane {toc 
FORE-FOOT, in the Sea-Language, is when one oad 
fails or Ties acrofs another’s wa 
As if two fhips being under fail, and in ken of one an- 
other, one of them lies in a cour fe, with her ftera fo much 
weather of the other, that if both hold on, the windward 
fhip will run a-head of the other: fuch fhip is faid to » lie 
with the other’s fe -foot. 
Though, as foon as fhe has paffed, they fay, fhe is gone 
out a-head, 
Fors-roor of a Ship, is apiece of timber that terminates 
the keel at the fore end. It is gpa by a fcarf to the 
extremity of the keel, of which it makes a part; and the 
other end of it, which is bent upward into a kind of knee 
or eae is fattened o the lower e d of ad =a of which 
mak C ene * Ifo called a gn 
FO EC RGABULUM, in our Old Wricws 
is ufed for a {mall referved rent in money, or quit-rent. 
FOREGOERS. The king’s furve were th 
ealled from their going before, to provide for nis houfehold. 
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AND, a term which, in refpedt to the horfe, 
fignifies that part which is before the rider. Thus a ho rfe 
is often faid to have a good or bad fore-hand. 
Fore-wanp Rent, in Rural Economy, is fuch as is paid 
before entering upon, or deriving profit from a farm, or any 
thing held in - enure. 
FORE a a point in the horfe, which fignifies thé 
The well-fhaped forehead fhould be 
front part of A 
if wi ith a feather and {tar 
fomewhat ase and rather flat : 
in it, it is the oe 
ForREHEAD, "Wound Is of. Sie Wou 
FORE-HOOKS ofa Ship. See Bazast-Hooks 
FORE-JEERS. See JEERS. 
Fore-jeer-Bits, ina ee Bir 
oe REIGN, eines extraneous, or r that comes from 
The lea By flag from the cal fores, doors 5 or 
foris, out of or forum, market, &c. 
Foreign ree foreign prince, eee goods, &c. are 
thofe belonging to other nations. See Minister, &e.: 
Foreign to the a ae fignifies a thing remote or im- 
pertinen nt. 
Foreign a are particularly called exotics. _, Fong 
foflils, fee Fos n motion, fee Mor Fo- 
reign canons, i ANO 
In fome univerfities fey give the appellation foreign doc- 
pa do dores s fo ag bat to fuch as do not refide in the place, 
rthe-univerfity ; but take degrees to go and live elfewhere, 
re in other meh ne 
In the life of St. Paul, bifhop of Verdun, written by an 
anonymous author, and publifhed from a MS. about four 
hundred years old, by Bollandus, we meet’ with forenf is 
FOR 
ai for a prieft who lives in another part. The fa 
Bollandus motes that St. Ambrofe ufes the word freak 3 
for exterio 
Ponce is ufed, in Lae, in feveral fenfes, and joined 
with divers fubftantives. Thus, 
Anfwer, is a an anf{wer as is not triable in 
the county where it is-‘ma 
"Se ee ATTACHMENT. 
Bill of Exchange. See Brix 
Forricn Matter 
or matter eh in ee county. See oe 
Foreign Oppefer, or Appofer, is an office 
a chequer, a 5 whom all thers or bailiffs do pace ir fe be ap- 
ofed by him of eg green wax, after they are appofed of 
their {ums out of the pipe-office; and who from thence 
draws down a ae upon one of them to the clerk of the 
ipe. 
His bufinefs is to examine the theriff’s eftreats with the 
record, to afk the fherif what he fays to every particular 
fum then 
Fone cs Plea, is a refufal of the judge as incom. 
petent, becaufe the matter in hand was not within his pre- 
cing. 
IGN Scamen, pee two pi on board Britifh 
fhips, whether of war, trade, or privateers, during the time 
of war, fhal! be deemed vata bor fubjects. But the 
perfons: fo naturalized are not c of being of the privy 
council, or me 
of truft, civil or military, or to ae we: grant a the 
crown o ~~ ee Geo. IT. 
h 
oldeth of soties wither t the com a own fee: 
or that which a tenant performeth, oie his own lord 
or to the lord paramount, out of his own fee. Kitch. 299.5 
ii, c. 16 
N Service i is ufed to denote military fervice 
ct 
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fos 
og 
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ca 
oO - fo) the realm to 
ithout having firft taken 
the oath of allegiance befo s dep ; and it is alfo 
elony for any gentleman, or perfon of highe degree, or 
f£ 
without pre- 
with two pee not to be 
t. eo. IT. 
eo. II. cap. 17. if a 
of Great Britain fhall enlift himfelf, or any perfon fhall p 
cure him to be enlifted, in any foreign fervice, or de a 
embark him for that-purpofe, without licence under ie 
cler u th 
difcover his feducer aie flee teen days, “to that he may 
apprehended and convicted of the fame, he fhall be og 
nifed. By ftat. 29 Geo. II. cap. 17. to ferve under the 
Fre ench king, asa nila, officer, is felony without benefit 
oO a . 
Dutch fervice, without previoufly taking the oaths of al- 
ees and abjuration, incurs a ferfeiture of five hundred 
ounds. 
FOREIGNERS are the natural born fubjects of fome 
foreign prince. (See Axien.) Foreigners refiding feven 
years in the Britifh plantations, without any longer r abfence 
than two months at one time, and taking the oaths, are to 
be deemed natural born fubjedts. a excepting Quakers 
and Jews, -all other perfons ‘muft receive the facrament in 
fome preteftant or reformed congregation in Great Britain, . 
or 
any id 
is matter triable in another county; 
mbers of na ee es or or taking any place | 
3. : 
fervice “wh a) a onic lord | 
