forego 
H.t intran*. To go forward ; goon. 
Her selfe, well as I might, I reskewcl tho, 
But could not stay, so fast she did foregoe. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. v. . 
forego 2 (for-go'), . t. ; pret. forewent, pp. fore- 
U<te, ppr. foregoing. See forgo 1 . 
fbregoer 1 (for-go'er), . [< ME. forgoere. < for- 
gim, forego, go before: see forego*-.] 1. One 
who goes before another; hence, a predeces- 
sor; an ancestor ; a progenitor. 
Thou shuldiBt understonde that thou maist not entre 
in hooly scriptures withoute uforgoere and shewynge the 
weie therol. Wyclif, Fret, to Epistles vi. 66. 
Yesterday was but as to-day, and to-morrow will tread 
the same footsteps of his foregoers. 
Sir^P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
We have no right to condemn our foregoers. 
J. Morley, On Compromise, p. 79. 
2f. A harbinger ; a forerunner. 
Bote Gyle was for-goere and gyede hem alle. 
Pierg Plowman (A), it 162. 
foregoer 2 (for-go'6r), n. Seeforgoer. 
foregoing (for-go'ing), n. [Verbal n. of. forego^, 
v.] The act of preceding, going before, or lead- 
ing the way. 
After whom, encouraged and delighted with theyr ex- 
cellent fore-going, others haue followed, to beautifle oure 
mother tongue. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
foregoing (for-go'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of forego^, 
t\] Preceding; going before, in time or place 
or in a series; antecedent: as, a foregoing 
clause in a writing. 
He casts his eye over the foregoing list. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 75. 
= 8301. See preuiotw. 
foregone (for-gdn'), P- a. [Pp. of forego*, v.] 
1. That has gone before ; previous; past; for- 
mer. 
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 
I summon up remembrance of things past, . . . 
Then can I grieve at grievances/orejwne. 
Shak., Sonnets, xxx. 
To keep thee clear 
Of all reproach against the sin foregone. 
Mrs. Browning. 
2. Predetermined; made up or settled before- 
hand. 
But this denoted a foregone conclusion; 
'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream. 
Shak., Othello, lit. 3. 
I plunge into foregone visions and conclusions. 
Ldinli, Elm, p. 33. 
foreground (for'ground), n. [= D. voorgrond 
= G. rorgrund = Dan. forgrund = Sw. /6V- 
grund; as fore- 1 + ground.] That part of a 
landscape or other scene, as actually perceived 
or as represented in a picture, which is nearest 
the eye of the observer: opposed to background 
or distance. 
On all the foreground lies the river, broad as a bay. 
D. G. Mitchell, Wet Days. 
foregrownt, a. Seeforgrown. 
foreguess (for-ges'), v. t. To guess beforehand ; 
conjecture. 
fore-gut (for'gut), n. See gut. 
forehammer (f6r'ham ;l 'er), n. [Sc.. also written 
foirhammer (= OD. veurhamer, D. voorhamer 
= Dan. forliammer, a sledge-hammer); (/ore- 1 
+ hammer.] A sledge or sledge-hammer; the 
large hammer which strikes first, or before the 
smaller one. 
Wi' coulters, and wi' forehammers, 
We garr'd the bars bang merrilie. 
Kinmont Willie (Child's Ballads, VI. 65). 
The brawnie, bainie, ploughman chiel 
Brings hard owrehip, wi' sturdy wheel, 
The strong forehammer, 
Till block an' studdie ling an' reel 
Wi' dinsome clamour. Burns, Scotch Drink. 
forehand (for'hand), n. [< fore- 1 + hand.'] 1. 
The part of a horse which is in front of the 
rider. 2f. The chief part; main dependence. 
The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns 
The sinew and the forehand of our host 
Shale., T. and C., i. 3. 
3t. Advantage ; the better. 
Such a wretch, 
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, 
Hath the fore-hand and vantage of a king. 
Shak., Hen. V.,iv. 1. 
forehand (for'hand), a. If. Done beforehand; 
anticipative ; done or paid in advance. 
If I have known her, 
You'll say, she did embrace me as a husband, 
And so extenuate the forehand sin. 
Shak., Much Ado, iv. 1. 
2. Beingaheadorinadvance; front. [Scotch.] 
I'm as honest as our avid forehand ox, puir fallow. 
Scott, Old Mortality, vii. 
forehanded (for'han'ded), a. 1. Early; time- 
ly ; seasonable : as, forehanded provision. 
2324 
If, by thus iloiiiK. ynu have not secured your time by an 
early and fore-handt'd care, yet lie sure by a timely dili- 
gence to redeem the time. Jet: Taylor, Holy Living, i. 1. 
2. Formed in the forehand or fore parts. 
A substantial true-bred beast, bravely forehanded. 
Drydrn. 
3. Well circumstanced as regards property and 
financial condition generally: as, a, forehanded 
farmer. [U. S.] 
Mr. Palmer was in popular phrase a forehanded man ; 
his house and barns were large, and his grounds indicated 
thrift. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 9. 
The Ram))os were forehanded, and probably as well sat- 
isfied as it is possible for Pennsylvania farmers to be. 
B. Taylor. 
forehard (for'hard), n. In rope-making, the 
proper twist of the separate strands of which a 
rope is made up. 
The forehard, or proper twist in the strands for all sizes 
of ropes, is at once attained. Ure, Diet., III. 718. 
forehead (for'ed orfor'hed), n. [< ME. forked, 
forheed,forehed, forehede, earlier/orefcee<J,/or- 
heaved, s AS. forhedfod, &\soforahedfod( fore- 
Jiedfod not found), forehead (= D. voorhoofd = 
Or. vorhaupt = Dan. forhoved, the front part of 
the head), < for, foran, before, fore-, + Itedfod, 
head: see /ore- 1 and head.] 1. The fore or 
front upper part of the head ; the part of the 
face which extends from the usual fine of hair 
on the top of the head to the eyes ; the brow. 
With theforhed plain gain hyni went, A smote 
Enmyddes of the brest. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4216. 
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and ear-rings in thine 
ears. Ezek. xvi. 12. 
2. Confidence; assurance; audacity; front: 
same as/ncel, 5. 
It is certain, nor can it with &ny forehead be opposed, 
that the too much licence of poetasters in this time hath 
much deformed their mistress. B. Jonson, Volpone, Ded. 
With what /<>/<*,/ 
Do you speak this to me, who (as I know 't) 
Must and will say 'tis false? 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, i. 2. 
Not any College of Mountebanks but would think scorn 
to discover in themselves with such abrazen/oreAoid the 
outrageous desire of filthy lucre. 
Milton, Church-Government, ii. 
3. In entom., the upper part of an insect's epi- 
cranium, including the front and vertex. [Bare.] 
forehead-cloth (for'ed-kldth), . A band sur- 
rounding the forehead, worn by women in the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, either 
alone or in combination with a cap or the like : 
said to have been used to prevent wrinkles. 
E'en like the forehead-cloth that in the night, 
Or when they sorrow, ladles used to wear. 
Marlowe and Chapman, Hero and Leander, vi. 
foreheart (for-her'), v. t. To hear or be in- 
formed of before. 
forehearth (for'harth), n. In metal., the front 
part of the hearth of a blast-furnace, or that 
part which is directly under the tymp-arch. 
forehentt, " ' See/or/ient. 
forehew (for-hu'), v. t. To hew or cut in front. 
forehold(f6r'hold), n. [</ore-l + hold*.] The 
front or forward part of the hold of a ship. 
foreholdingt (for-hol'ding), n. [Verbal n. of 
*forehold (not used), predict, </ore-l + hold 1 .] 
Prediction; ominous foreboding; superstitious 
prognostication. 
How are superstitious men nagged out of their wits with 
the fancy of omens, foreholdingt, and old wives' tales ! 
Sir K. L' Estrange. 
forehood (for'hud), n. In ship-building, one of 
the most forward of the outside and inside 
planks. 
forehook (for'huk), n. Naut., a piece of tim- 
ber placed across the stem to unite the bows 
and strengthen the fore part of the ship ; a 
breast-hook. See cut under stem. 
forehorset, The horse in a team which goes 
foremost. 
I shall stay here the f o rr horse to a smock [that is, walk- 
ing before a woman as usher or squire]. 
Shak., All's Well, a 1. 
It is not your Poet Garish and yomforehorteol the par- 
ish that shall redeeme you from her fingers. 
Sash, Strange News (1592), sig. F. 
foreign (for'an), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also 
forreign (as in sovereign, the g is a mod. inser- 
tion, prob. due to a confused association with 
reign ; the reg. mod. form would be 'forain or 
"/orew) ; < ME. foren, forene,forein, foreyn, 
forayn, < OF. forain, forein, F. forain =. Pr. 
foraneo = Sp. foraneo = It. foraneo, foreign, 
strange, alien, < ML. foratievs, outside, exterior 
(as a noun, applied to a canon not in resi- 
dence, a peddler, etc.), < L. foras, out of doors, 
foreigner 
< fori.i, commonly in pl./orp., a door, gate, = 
E. door, q. v. ; connected with/orwm, q. v.] I. 
a. 1. Not native; alien; belonging to, charac- 
teristic of, or derived from another country 
or nation ; exotic ; not indigenous : as, foreign 
animals or plants ; the large foreign population 
in the United States ; foreign manner. 
His often concurrence with ancient and foreign authors. 
Cornhill Mag., Oct., 1878, p. 468. 
A wide commerce . . . imported enough foreign refine- 
ment to humanize, not enough foreign luxury to corrupt. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 95. 
2. Having an alien situation or relation ; exter- 
nal to or away from one's native country: as, 
a foreign country or jurisdiction ; to enter a for- 
eign army or school. 
Whan men gon begonde tho iourneyes, toward Ynde 
and to the foreyn Yles, alle is envyronynge the roundnesse 
of the Erthe and of the See, undre oure Contrees on this 
half. Mandeville, Travels, p. 188. 
There is no foreign land ; it is the traveller only that is 
foreign. A. L. Stevemon, Silverado Squatters, p. 114. 
[In law, for certain purposes, chiefly in the determination 
of private rights in a case of conflict of laws, the legis- 
lation and the judicial decisions of any one of the United 
States are commonly spoken of as foreign with respect to 
the other States, especially as regards matters not within 
the jurisdiction of the national government. Thus, in 
each State corporations formed under the law of any other 
State are termed foreign corporations. On the other hand, 
as commerce is subject to regulation by Congress, the term 
foreign port, when used in reference to such commerce, 
implies a port outside of the United States ; when used, 
however, in reference to a State law giving a lien upon 
shipping, it may also mean a port of any other state. ] 
3. Relating to or connected with another coun- 
try or other countries; pertaining to external 
relations or jurisdiction : as, foreign diplomacy ; 
t. foreign minister; the department of foreign 
affairs in a government. 4. Being in a place 
other than its own; not naturally connected 
with its surroundings : specifically said of an 
object, as a bullet or any material, present in 
a part of the body or in any other situation 
which is normally free from such intrusion. 
Thus, sand in the eye, or a splinter or dead bone 
in the flesh, is foreign matter OTO, foreign body. 
When a bullet, or other foreign substance, is lodged in 
the flesh, the vital powers go to work and build up a lit- 
tle wall around it. 
J. F. Clarke, Ten Great Religions, iv. 1. 
5. Not belonging (to) ; not connected (with) ; 
extraneous; irrelevant; not to the purpose: 
with to, or sometimes from: as, the sentiments 
you express are foreign to your heart ; this de- 
sign is foreign from my thoughts. 
He never quits his Simile till it rises to some very great 
Idea, which is often foreign to the Occasion which gave 
Birth to it. Addison, Spectator, No. 303. 
This innovation by means of the Episode . . . was for- 
eign to the intention of the Chorus. 
Goldsmith, Origin of Poetry. 
6. Excluded; not admitted; held at a distance. 
[Bare.] 
They will not stick to say you envied him ; 
And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous, 
Kept him & foreign man still. 
Shak., Hen. VIiI., ii. 2. 
Foreign administration, in law. See administration, 
9. Foreign attachment, in law. See attachment, 1. 
Foreign bill of exchange. See bill of exchange, under 
bills. Foreign canon. See canons. -Foreign Office, 
the department of state through which the sovereign or 
sovereign power communicates with foreign powers : call- 
ed in the United States the Department of State. 
In nearly every Foreign Office in the world a thorough 
knowledge of French is required of every clerk as a pre- 
liminary to his appointment. 
E. Schuyler, Amer. Diplomacy, p. 15. 
Foreign Process Acts, English statutes of 1832, 1834, and 
1852, providing for the service of process of certain courts 
in places beyond their territorial jurisdiction. =Syn. 5. 
Unconnected (with), disconnected (with), uncongenial (to), 
adventitious. 
H.t n. A stranger; a foreigner; specifically, 
one who is not a citizen of the place referred 
to: opposed to freeman. 
The touns, the countes, the/0ryt/tt*alle aboute 
To the kyng fell on knees, his powere tham loute, 
Unto his pes them said, feaute did him snere. 
Hob. of Brunne, tr. of Langtoft's Chron. 
[(ed. Hearne), p. 322. 
Also, that/iimw as wel as other may make attournays 
in hustingis as wel as the playntif as the defendaunt as it 
is done in other court. 
Charter of London (Rich. II.), in Arnold's Chronicle, p. 20. 
foreigner (for'an-er), n. [Early mod. E. also 
fnrreigner; < ME. foreyner; < foreign + -erl. 
The earlier noun was foreign.'] 1. A person 
born or domiciled in a foreign country, or out- 
side of the country or jurisdiction referred to ; 
an alien. 
Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in 
a greater lustre, either to foreigners or subjects. Swtft. 
2t. One who does not belong to a certain class, 
association, society, etc. ; an outsider. 
