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t to the foredech went, and thence did look 
For rocky Scylla. Chapman. 
To FOREDE'EM, v. a. To think beforehand, to judge 
beforehand. Scott. 
To l'OREDESI'GN, v. a. To plan beforehand.—All 
the deps of the growth and vegetation botli of animals 
and plants, have been forefeenand foredefgned by the wife 
Author of nature. Cheyne. 
To FOREDO', v. a. [or rather Fordo, fromand 
do, not fore.~\ To ruin ; to deftroy. A word obfolete. —Op- 
pofed to making happy : / 
This is the night, 
That either makes me, or fordoes me quite. Shakcfpeare. 
To overdo ; to weary ; to harrafs : 
Whild the heavy ploughman fnores 
All with weary talk fordone. Shakcfpeare. 
To FOREDOO'M, v.a. To prededinate j to determine 
beforehand : 
Fate foredoom'd, and all things tend 
By courfe of time to their appointed end. Dryden. 
Here Britain’s datefmen oft the fall foredoom 
Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home. Pope. 
FO'REDOOR, f. A door in the front of a houfe. 
FORE-END,/. The anterior part.—In the fore-endoi 
it, which was towards him, grew a fmall green branch of 
palm. Bacon. 
I have liv’d at honed freedom ; paid 
More pious debts to heaven than in all 
The fore-end of my time. Shakcfpeare. 
To FOREFA'NG, v. a. To take beforehand, to take 
up provifion before the king’s purveyors were ferved. 
Bailey. Objolete. 
FOREFA'THER, f. Ancedor ; one who in any de¬ 
gree of afeending genealogy precedes another.—The cuf- 
tom of the people of God, and the decrees of our fore¬ 
fathers, are to be kept, touching thofe things whereof 
the Scripture hath neither one way or other given us 
charge. Hooker. 
Bled peer ! his great forefathers ev’ry grace 
Refledting and reflected in his race. Pope. 
FOREFE'ET, f. The foremod feet of a quadruped. 
To FOREFE'ND, v. a. [It is doubtful whether derived 
from fore or for and defend „ If from fore, it implies ante¬ 
cedent* provifion ; as forearm: if from for, prohibitory 
fecurity ; as forbid. Of the two following examples one 
favours for, and the other fore. ] To prohibit; to avert : 
I would not kill thy unprepared fpirit ; 
No, heav’ns forefend! I would not kill thy foul. Shakefp'. 
Perhaps a fever, which the gods forefend, 
May bring your youth to fome untimely end. Dryden. 
To provide for ; to fecure : 
Down with the nofe, 
Down with it flat : take the bridge quite away 
Of him, that, his particular to forefend, 
Smells from the general weal. Shakcfpeare. 
FO'REFIELD, f. with miners. The extent of a meer 
of ground. 
FOREFIN'GER,y. The finger next to the thumb; 
the index.—Some wear this on the middle finger, as the 
ancient Gauls and Britons ; and fome upon the jorefnger. 
Brown. 
FO'REFOOT, f plur .forefeet. The anterior foot of a 
quadruped: in contempt, a hand.—He ran fiercely, and 
fmoteat Heliodorus with his forefeet. 2 Mac., iii. 25.—Give 
me thy fid, thy forefoot to me give. Shakefpeare. —A fea- 
term : the courfe of the fiiip, the courfe intercepted by 
the eroding of another fliip. 
FOREFRO'NT, f. The forehead : the principal front 
of a houfe. 
Vo 1. VII. No. 449. 
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To FOREGO', v.a. To quit; to give up ; to refign. 
—Special reafon oftentimes caufeth the will to prefer one 
good thing before another ; to leave one for another’s 
fake, to forego meaner for the attainment of higher de¬ 
grees. Hooker. 
Let us not forego 
That fora trifle which was bought with blood. Shakefp. 
Mow can I live without thee 1 how forego 
Thy fweet converfe, and love fo dearly join’d 
To live again in thefe wild woods forlorn ! Milton. 
To go before; to be pad.—This foregoing remark gives 
the reafon why imitation pleafes. Dryden. —In the fore¬ 
going part of this work I promifed proofs. Woodward.— 
To lofe : 
This is the very eedafy of love, 
Whofe violent property foregoes itfelf, 
And leaves the will to defperate undertakings. Shakefp,. 
FOREGO'ER, f. Ancedor ; progenitor: 
Honours bed thrive, 
When rather from our acts we them derive 
Than our foregoers. Shakefpeare. 
One that goes before another : 
And all the followers their heads do lay 
On their foregoers' back. Davies. 
FO'REGROUND, f. The part of the field or expanfe 
of a pifture which feems to lie before the figures.—Ail 
agree that white can fubfid on the foreground of the pic¬ 
ture. Dryden. 
FO'REHAND, f. The part of a horfe which is before 
the rider. The chief part: 
The great Achilles whom opinion crowns 
The finew and the forehand of our holt. Shakefpeare. 
FO'REHAND, adj. Done fooner than is regular : 
You’ll fay (he did embrace me as ahufband, 
And fo extenuate the forehand fin. Shakefpeare. 
FOREHAN'DED, adj. Early ; timely.—If by thus 
doing you have not fecured your time by an early and 
forehanded care, yet be fure, by a timely diligence, to re¬ 
deem the time. Taylor. —Formed in the foreparts.—He’s 
a fubdantial true-bred bead, bravely fore-handed: mark 
but the cleannefs of his diapes too. Dryden. 
FOR'EFIEAD, f. That part of the face which reaches 
from the eyes upward to the hair : 
Some angel copy’d, while I dept, each grace, 
And moulded ev’ry feature from my face : 
Such majefly does from her forehead rife, 
Her cheeks inch bludies cad, fucli rays her eyes. Dryden. 
Impudence; confidence; aflurance; audacioufnefs ; auda¬ 
city. The forehead is the part on which fliatne vifibly ope¬ 
rates.—A man of confidence prefleth forward upon every 
appearance of advantage ; where his force is too (eeble, 
he prevails by dint of impudence : thefe men of forehead 
are magnificent in promifes, and infallible in their pre- 
feriptions. Collier. 
“ In the Forehead and the eye, 
“ The ledture of the mind doth lie.” 
The Latins fay, Vultus index animi. The French, I.e 
front & les yeux, font comme le miro'ir de Dame. The Ita¬ 
lians, La fronte. e gli archi feno come lo fepchio dell' anvna. 
This proverb is founded on the dodtrine of phydognomy, 
and is univerfal; the forehead and the eyes being confi- 
dered among all nations as “ the mirror of the mind.” 
FOREHOLD'ING,yi Predictions; ominous accounts ; 
fuperditious prognodications.—How are fuperditious men 
hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens, fore hold¬ 
ings, and eld wives tales. L'F.Jirange. 
FO'REHOOK,/. A fea term ; a bread-hook. 
FO'REHORSE, f. The horfe in harnefs that goes 
foremod.—I (hall day here the forehorfe to a fmock. 
Shakefpeare. 
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