t To deter- 

foreclose 
2 In law () To shut out by a judicial decree foredeterminet (for-de-ter'min), ,.,. ^. 
from further opportunity to assert a right or mine beforehand; predetermine. Bp.HopktM. 
claim: said of the process by which all persons foredisposet (tor-dis-poz'), r. t. lo dispose or 
previously having right to redeem property bestow beforehand; predispose, 
from a forfeiture for non-payment of a debt are King James had by promise furetlitp 
finally cut off from that right : as, to foreclose a the Bishop of Meath. 
mortgager of his equity of redemption. Hence foredo 1 (for-do"), v. t.; 
forego 
(b fTo enforce, as a mortgage, by shutting out 
in due process of law a mortgager and those 
claiming under him from the right to redeem 
the property mortgaged. 
II. intrant. To enforce a mortgage, 
foreclosure (tor-klo'zur), n. [< foreclose + 
-lire.] The act of foreclosing; the act of de- foredp'-', 
f j one! pp r- foredniiig. 
ehi 
.1 1 \\ t-l* n vc-words-lont;, 
That on the stretc-h'd J'urrfmger of all Time 
sparkle forever. Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
fore-flank (for'flangk), . A projection of fat 
upon the ribs of sheep. [Prov. Eng.] 
,posed the place i on foreflow (for-flo'), v. t. To flow before. 
forefoot (for'fiit), H. ; yl. forefeet (-fet). [<ME. 
pret. foredid, pp. fore- f nre f nt; (.fore-* +/>.] 1. One of the ante- 
[</orc-i + do 1 .] .lo do rior feet o j a q ua( i rape d or other animal hav- 
ing more than two feet. [Properly written as 
two words.] 
beforehand ; perform or perpetrate previously. 
And then behoveth us to take upon us sharp penance, 
continuing therein, for to obtain of the Lord forgivnessof 
nnrfomlone sins, and grace to abstain us hereafter from 
sin. Bp. Bale, Exam, of W. Thorpe. 
t. An incorrect form of fordo. 
priving a mortgager of the right of redeeming fore-documentary (f6r"dok-u-men'ta-n), a. 
ecedi 
are.] 
his mortgaged estate. Foreclosure, as commonly used Preceding all written descriptions or accounts. 
in the United States, or, more fully, foreclomtre and sale, [R 
- 
Give me thy fist: thy fore-foot to me give. 
Shak., Hen. V., ii. 1. 
As the dog 
With inward yelp and restless forefoot plies 
His function of the woodland. 
Tennyson, Lucretius. 
is effected by causing a public sale of the mortgaged prop- 
erty, after notice to all parties (either (o) by action of fore- 
closure, or (b), under the power in the mortgage, in a man- 
ner usually regulated by statute, called foreclosure by ad- 
f t , . t k anything of the 
or TMKI ^r,-,l ul ;nne,,tar a condition of what 
m ' history as jf 8rae , Edinourgh &,., CXLV. 485. 
12th of 'July, 1793. The Century, XXXV. 74. 
Strict foreclosure, foreclosure by obtaining a judgment 
or decree which gives the mortgager a short time to re- 
deem, and, in default thereof, declares the property to be- 
long absolutely to the mortgagee. To open a foreclo- 
sure. See open. 
foreconceive (for-kon-seV), v. t. ; pret. and pp. vious doom ' or sentence. 
foreconceived, ppr. foreconceiving. To conceive f ore _(loor (for'dor), n. 
beforehand ; preconceive. 
A certain anticipation of the gods, which he calls a pro- 
mi to cross, 
__ engross. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 17. 
Faintly nickering suns 
Foredoomed like him to waste away. 
S. Buchanan, N. A. Rev., CXL. 453. 
[< foredoom, v.] Pre- 
foredoomt (for'dom), n. 
2. In Mollusea, the anterior division of the foot 
or podium ; the propodium. 3. The forward 
end of the keel of a vessel. Athwart the fore- 
foot. See athwart. 
doom before- forefront (for'frunt), n. 1. The foremost part 
or place : as, the forefront of a building, or of a 
battle. 
And made the vi] Psalmys for the sleyng of Vrye, whom 
he put in the forhfrontt of the batell porposly to have 
hym slayne. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel], p. 36. 
I hane not bene vnmindefull ... to place in the fore- 
front of this booke those forren conquests, exploits, and 
trauels of our English nation which haue bene atchieued 
of old. Uakluyt's Voyages, To the Reader. 
2f. The forehead. 
lepsis, a certain preventive, or foreconceiced information 
of a thing in the mind. J. Home, Works, I. 22. 
The front door. [Ob- forefront (for-f runt'), v .t. [<forefront,n.] To 
solete or provincial.] bui i d or a< jd a forefront to. [Bare.] 
I set him to wear the fore-door wi' the speir, while I kept He wou i d new f ore .f, nt his house, and add a new wing 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. 31. 
to make it even. 
foreconcludet (for-kon-klod'), t. To arrange 
or settle beforehand. 
They held the same confederation foreconcludcd by Al- 
fred. Daniel, Hist. Eng., p. 12. f ore . e lder (for'el'der), n. 
forecondemnt (f or-kon-dem' ), v . t. To condemn 
beforehand. 
What can equally savour of injustice and plaine arro- 
gance as to prejudice and forecotidemne his adversary in 
the title for slanderous and scurrilous? 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
forecourt (for'kort), n. The front or first court 
in a series of courts or courtyards; the court 
or inclosed space in front of a building. 
His Maty was pleas'd to grant me a lease of a slip of 
ground out of Brick Close, to enlarge my fore-court. 
Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 14, 1668. 
There is first the ethnic forecourt, then the purgatorial 
middle-space, and at last the holiest of holies dedicated to 
the eternal presence of the mediatorial God. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 101. 
fore-covertt (for'kuv'ert), . Same as fore- 
the back-door wi' the lance. 
Fray of Suport (Child's Ballads, VI. 117). 
The tiger-hearted man ... by force carried me through forefrontt (for'frunt) adv [By ellipsis from 
a long entry to the fore-door. the forefront.] In front. 
Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison, I. 248. To the entry f ore _f ron t of this a court, at the other back 
[= Dan. forceldre = front a plot walled in. Evelyn, To Hon. Robert Boyle. 
Sw. fordldrar, parents; as fore-* + elder*, n.] fore-gaff (for'gaf), n. Naut., the gaff of the 
An ancestor. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] fore-trysail, or of the foresail in a schooner. 
Mr. Thomas Graham, of Beanlands, Irthington, now in foregamet (for'gam), n. A first game ; first plan. 
his sixty-ninth year, . . . whose fore-elders, alternating Wllltlock. 
for'gang"er), H. [< WS.forganger, 
f ore ?umier (= V.voorganglr = G. 
vor ganger = DmL.forgjcmger = Svt.foregangare, 
all the way down as Thomas and David, have owned Bean- 
lands since 1603. If. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 184. 
When we read in history of a brave deed done by an Eng- 
lishman seven centuries since or more, we may say with 
confidence it was done by one of our fore-elders. 
fop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 378. 
fore-end (for'end), . The early or fore part 
of anything. [Properly written as two words.] 
This rock and these demesnes have been my world ; 
Where I have liv'd at honest freedom, paid 
More pious debts to heaven, than in all 
The fore-end of my time. Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 3. 
predecessor), < forganzen, < AS. foregangan, 
equiv. to f organ, foregdn, forego: see forego* 
and gang.] If. One who goes before ; a fore- 
runner. 
Wharfore I hald theese grete mysdoers, 
Als antecryste lymmes and hyaforegangera. 
Hampole. 
2. In whaling, a piece of rope, of the same kind 
Gude-day to ye, cummer, and mony ane o' them. I will as the tow-line, made fast to the shank of a tog- 
wuue-unj' w jc,i;iiiiiiiici, uiiu uiuiij CMIO nn/u. * .' 
be back about the fore-end o' har'st, and I trust to find ye 
baith haill and fere. Scott, Antiquary, xxvii. 
fence. 
And verily of undermining and the fabrickes fore-covert 
and defence Nevita and Dagalaiphus had the charge. forefaintt, a. See forfaint. 
Holla^, tr. of Ammianus (1609). forefairn (for-farn'), f. a. See forfairn. 
foredate (f6r-dat'),0. t.; pret. and pp. foredat- forefather (f6r'fa"THer), n. [< ME. forefader, 
ed, ppr. foredating. To date before the true forfader (= D. voorvadcr = G. tor-eater = Icel. . 
forfadhir = Dan. forfadre = Sw. forfader, only foregatet, n. A 
That part of a day which { n p i ancestors); < fore-* + father. Cf . AS. The nether townt .. 
* forth-f(Eder,< forth, forth, + fader, father.] An also thereto, and tfongate at the_entrance nito it. 
ancestor ; one who precedes another in the line 
time ; antedate. 
foreday (for' da), n. 
comes between breakfast-time and noon ; fore- 
noon. Jamieson. [Scotch.] 
gle-iron or harpoon, with an eye-splice in one 
end : so called by English and Scotch whale- 
men, more frequently by Americans the strap 
or iron-Strap. The process of adjusting this rope to the 
iron is known to the latter as strapping, to the former as 
spanning. 
An entrance gate. 
fensed with a wall, with a castle 
Holland, tr. of Camden's Britain, ii. 81. 
The settin moon shone even in their faces, and he saw o f genealogy in any degree, but usually in a re- foregather (for-gaTH'er), v. i. See forgather. 
i__iii__j, f j TT T>_~. ..:.* t 10 ff\v.n tnf4- lpf\..'mf4-\ fi. TV, I/ml o navTnonr.m an- 
as weel as it had been foreday. Hogg, Brownie, i. 13. 
foredays (for'daz), adv. 1. Toward noon. 2. 
Toward evening. [Prov. Eng. in both uses.] 
foredealt, [Early mod. E. foredele; < ME. 
foredel, fordete (= D. voordeel = LG. vortel = 
G. vortheil = Sw. fordel = Dan. fordel), ad- 
vantage, benefit; < fore-* + deal*.] Advan- 
tage; benefit. 
To one demaunding what awantage he had by his philos- 
ophic, "Though nothing els," saied he, "yet at lestwise 
this/oredeie I haue, that! am readie prepared to al maner 
fortune, good or badde." 
J. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 157. 
fore-deck (for'dek), n. Naut., the forward part 
of the spar-deck. 
foredeclaret (for-de-klar'), v. t. 
forehand. 
ods had fore-declared, 
elieved. 
B. Joiison, Sejanus, v. 10. 
foredeemt (for-dem'), . I. intrans. To judge 
or declare beforehand ; foretell. 
Which [maid] could guess and forede,em of things past, 
present, ami to come. Genevan Testament. 
H. trans. To deem; consider; take for grant- 
ed; expect. 
Of a frende it was more standing with humanitee and 
gentlenesse to hope the best then to foredeme the worste. 
J. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 320. 
Laugh at your misery, tu foredceming you 
An idle meteor. Webster. 
foredesign (for-de-zin' or -sin'), v. t. To de- 
sign or plan beforehand ; forecast. Johnson. 
mote degree. fore~gift (for'gift), n. In law, a payment in ad- 
Ryght vnder the morteys of the crosse was founde ye vance ; specifically, a premium paid by a les- 
hede of our forefather Adam. 
Sir Jl. Guylforde, Pylgrymagc, p. 27. 
That which, if all the 
Would not have been 
No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves, . . . 
It could not slake mine ire. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 3. 
Each hi his narrow cell for ever laid, 
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 
Gray, Elegy. 
Forefathers' day, the anniversary of the day (December 
21st, 1620) on which the Pilgrims or first settlers landed 
at Plymouth, Massachusetts, annually celebrated in New 
England, and by New Englanders elsewhere. Owing to 
an error in changing the date from the old style to the 
new, the anniversary was formerly celebrated on Decem- 
ber 22d. 
To declare be- forefeel (for-feT), v. t.; pret. and pp. forefelt, 
Wr.forefeeling. To feel beforehand ; feel as if 
by presentiment. 
Full loth was 
were, fore-feeli, 
see on taking his lease, in distinction from the 
rent. 
foregirth (for'gerth), w. A girth or strap for 
the fore part, as of a horse ; a martingale. 
foregleam (for'glem), n. A gleam or glimpse 
of the future. 
So many thrilling foregleams of his fulness. 
Bushnell, Sermons on Living Subjects, 4th ser., p. 89. 
An indication that the moral is in the mind and purpose 
of God, even so far back as in the brute world afore- 
gleam of the approaching issue. 
The Century, XXXII. 112. 
. A glimpse or rev- 
,-- . . 
elation of the future. 
Had I had nforeglimpse of what was to be. 
Christian Union, April 7, 1887. 
as Erona to let us depart from her- as it f-,,! (f or .g6'), V.; pret. forewent, pp. fore- 
mn the harms which after fell to her. luiogu \ l 6" a ' r J ,/_,,, \ 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. gone, ppr. foregoing. [< ME. f organ (rare), go 
The keenest pleasure Is where, against the surviving 
pain of want, the satisfaction is felt or forefelt as actual. 
F. H. Braafey, Ethical Studies, p. 260, note. 
fore-fencet (for'fens), n. Defense in front. 
Also called fore-cover t. 
Whiles part of the souldiers maketh the fore-fences 
abroad in the fields. Holland, tr. of Ammianus (1609). 
forefend (for-fend'), . t. Seeforfend. 
forefinger (for'fing"ger), n. [< WE.forefynger; 
<fore-* + finger.] The finger next to the thumb ; 
the index or second digit of the hand (count- 
ing the thumb as first). See finger. 
before, < AS. forgdn, more commonly foregdn 
(= D. voorgaan = G. vorgehen = Dan. foregaa 
= Sw. forego), with equiv. forgangan, foregan- 
gan, go before, precede, < fore, before, + gan, 
gangan, go: see fore* and go, and gang.] I. 
trans. To go before; precede. 
Milthe [mercy] and sothnes sal./ 'organ thi face. 
Ps. Ixxxviii. 15 (ME. version) (Ixxxix. 14). 
Morning shadows huger than the shapes 
That cast them, not those gloomier which forego 
The darkness of that battle in the West, 
Where all of high and holy dies away. 
Tennyson, To the Queen. 
