560 FOR FOR 
exclufive claims of the college, this voluntary aflumption 
of hiin might appear extraordinary. But that learned 
body was then preparing a new edition of its Pharma¬ 
copoeia ; and as mod of its members had been educated in 
the lefs adtive fchools of medical fcience, it may be pre¬ 
fumed that they were fenfible of a deficiency in the general 
dock of chemical knowledge, which they thought it ad- 
vifitble to fupply by adopting one of Dr. Fordyce’s repu¬ 
tation. Th.ough from It is habits of life his~ conditutton 
fliewed fymptorns of premature decay, he continued to 
pivrfue his profefiional employments, till at length, under 
the preffure of irregular gout and a watery effufion in the 
cited, he funk on June 25, 18.0-2, at the age of fixty-fix. 
Dr. Fordyce as a ledturer was How and embarrafied in his 
delivery, but his matter was replete with original ideas, 
and rich in fcientific dores, accumulated by the help of a 
very retentive memory. His works were, 1. Elements 
of Agriculture and Vegetation. 2. Elements of the 
Practice of Phyfic, in two parts. 3. A Treatife on the 
Digedion of Food. 4. Four Differtations on Fever ; and 
various papers in the philofophical, and the medical and 
chirurgical, tranfadtions. 
The accurate chemical knowledge pofleffed by Dr. 
Fordyce, and his extenlive application of it to phyfiology 
and medicine, were drongly exhibited in his EfTay on 
Digedion, read before the college of phyficians in 1791 
as rite Guldonian ledture for that year, and afterwards 
publidted in a feparate pamphlet. In this efl'ay the au¬ 
thor, after a diort view of the anatomical drudture of the 
organs concerned in digedion, attempts a general claflifi- 
cation of all the fubdances, animal and vegetable, ufually 
employed as aliment, and endeavours to dmplify their 
chemical analyfis by referring them to one or two leading 
jpecies, among which he peculiarly feledts that of muci¬ 
lage, which word he employs in an enlarged application, 
and as a generic term to exprefs every infipid fubdance, 
animal.or vegetable, which is foluble in water and again 
recoverable from it by evaporation unaltered, which is 
coagulable, vifcid, and whiclt forms the mod copious 
part of the nutrition of the animal world. Purfui ng the 
purely chemical part of the procefs ot digedion, the 
author then proceeds to a chemical examination of the 
animal liquors, efpecially that of the dornach, and in a 
very fatisfadhory manner he refutes the ancient notions 
concerning fermentation, putrefadtion, and the like, to 
which the myderious procefs of digedion was compared, 
by the adidance of a very vague and falfe analogy. In 
fonte important particulars the author contradicts the 
affertions of the late eminent Spallanzani, whofe nume¬ 
rous and intereding experiments on the fubjedt of digef- 
tion have thrown fo much light peculiarly on the che¬ 
mical part of this natural fundtion. See the articles 
Aliment, vol. i. p.338, and Food, p.545of thisvolume. 
FORE, adj. [pope, Sax.] Anterior; that which is 
before ; not behind.—Though there is an orb or fpherical 
area of the found, yet they move dronged and go farthed 
in the fore lines from the fird local impredion. Bacon .— 
That which comes fird in a progredive motion.—Refid- 
ance in fluids arifes from their greater preding on the 
fore than hind part of the bodies moving in them. Cheyne. 
FORE, adv. Anteriorly ; in the part which appears 
fird to thofe that meet it.—Each of them will bear dx 
demiculverins and four fakers, needing no other addition 
than a dight fpardeck fore and aft, which is a flight deck 
throughout. Raleigh.—Fore is a word much ufed to mark 
priority of time ; but a vicious orthography has confound¬ 
ed for and fore, in competition. 
To FOREADVI'SE, v. n. To counfel early ; to coun- 
fel before the time of adtion, or the event: 
Thus to have faid, 
As you were foreadvis'd, had touch’d his fpirit, 
And tried his inclination. Shakefpeare. 
To FOR E APPO'INT, v. n. To order beforehand. 
To FOREA'RM, v. a. To provide for attack or refid- 
ance before the time of need.—A man lliould fix and 
forearm his mind with this perfuaflon, that, during his 
pafiion, whatfoever is offered to his imagination tends 
only to deceive. South. 
To FOREBO'DE, v. n. To prognodicate ; to foretell : 
An ancient augur, (kill'd in future fate, 
With thefe foreboding words redrains their hate. Dryden. 
To foreknow ; to be prefeient of; to feel a fecret fenf® 
of fomething future : 
Fate makes you deaf, while I in vain implore : 
My heart forbodes I ne’er (hall fee you more. Dryden. 
My foul foreboded I diould find the bow’r 
Of tome fell monder, fierce with barb’rous pow’-r. Pope. 
FOREBO'DER, f. A prognofticator ; a foothfayer.—. 
Your raven has a reputation in the world fora bird of 
omen, and a kind of fmall prophet : a crow that had ob- 
ferved the raven’s manner and way of delivering his pre¬ 
dictions, fets up fora foreboder. L’Ef range. — Aforeknower. 
FO'REBOLT, f. a fea term, an iron pin with an eye 
at each end ufed to brace up and keep the timbers from 
darting. 
FOREBOW'LING, f a fea term, the bowling of the 
forefail. 
FOREBY', prep. Near; hard by; fad by : 
Not far away he hence doth won 
Foreby a fountain, where I late him left. Spenfer. 
To FORECA'ST, v. a. To fcheme ; to plan before 
execution.—He dial! forecaft his devices againd the drong 
holds. Dan.x i.—To adjuft ; to contrive antecedently : 
The fead was ferv’d ; the time fo well forecaf, 
That jud when the deffert and fruits were plac’d, 
The fiend’s alarm began. Dryden. 
To forefee ; to provide againd.—It is wifdom to confider 
the end of things before we embark, and to forecaf con- 
fequences. DEf range. 
To FORECA'ST, v.n. To form fchemes ; to contrive 
beforehand : 
And whatfo heavens in their fecret doom 
Ordained have, how can frail flediy wight 
Forecaf, but it mud needs to iffue come ? Spenfer. 
FO'RECAST, f. Contrivance beforehand ; fcheme; 
plan ; antecedent policy—He makes this difference to 
arife from the forecaf and predetermination of the gods. 
Addifon. 
The lad, fcarce ripen’d into perfect man, 
Saw helplefs him from whom their life began : 
Mem’ry and forecaf jud returns engage; 
That pointed back to youth., this on to age. Pope. 
FOREC AS'TER, f. One who contrives beforehand. 
FO'RECASTLE, y.That part in a diip where the fore- 
mad Hands, and is divided from the red of the floor by a 
bulk-head : that part of the forecaf le which is aloft, and 
not in the hold, is called the prow. See Naval Archi¬ 
tecture. 
FORECHO'SEN, part. Pre-eledted. 
FO'RECITED, part. Quoted before, or above.— 
Greaves is of opinion, that the alteration mentioned in 
that forccited paflage is continued. Arbuthnot. 
To FORECLOSE, v. a. Tofhutup; to preclude ; to 
prevent.—The embargo with Spain forcclofed. Carezu. 
To Foreclose a Mortgage, is to cut off from the mort¬ 
gager the power of redemption. This, in law, is called 
a foreclofure. For the procefs, fee thearticle Mortgage. 
—The mortgagee may call upon the mortgager to redeem 
his edate prelently, or in default thereof to be for ever 
foreclo/ed from redeeming the fame. Blackfone. 
FORECLOSURE,^/! The add of foreclofing. 
To FORECONCE'IVE, v. n. To preconceive. Ex¬ 
pediting or foreconceiving, that Nemefis and retribution will 
t.ike hold of the authors of our hurt. Bacon. 
FORECOURSE,y. a fea term, the forefail of a (hip. 
FO'REDECK ; yi The anterior part of the fliip. 
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