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In a (hip, a flat piece of timber or iron driven into the 
eye of a bolt to keep it tight in the hole. 
FORELOI'N, f. The ilioulder and part of the loin of 
a hog. , 
To FORELOI'N, v.n. In hunting; to meet and run 
away with the chace. Scott. 
FO'REMAN, f. The fir ft or chief perfon.—He is a 
very fenfible man, (hoots flying, and has been feveral 
times foreman of the petty jury. Addifon. 
FO'REMAST, f. The firfl malt of a fit ip towards the 
head. 
FO'REMAST-MAN, f. One that furls the fails, and 
takes his courfe at the helm. 
FOREME'ANT, adj. Meant beforehand.—As being 
the place by deftiny foremeant. B. Jonfon. 
FO'REMENTIONED, adj. Mentioned or recited be¬ 
fore. It is obfervable that many participles are com¬ 
pounded with fore, wliofe verbs have no fuch compofi- 
tion.—Dacier, in the life of Aurelius, has* not taken no¬ 
tice of the forementioncd figure on the pillar. Addifon. 
FO'REMOST, adj. Firlt in place : 
Our women in the forevwji ranks appear ; 
March to the fight, and meet your miftrefs there. Dryden. 
Firfl in dignity : 
Thefe ride foremof in the field, 
As they the foremoji rank of honour held. Dryden. 
FOREMO'THER,y’. A female anceftor.—He honours 
his forefathers and foremot/iers, but condemns his parents 
as too modern. Butler. 
FORENA'MED, adj. Nominated before : 
And fuch are fure ones, 
As Curius and the forenam'd Lentulus. Ben. Jonfon. 
FORENEN'ST, prep. Oppofiteto: 
The lands forenenjl the Greekifh (bore he held, 
From Sangar’s mouth to crook’d Meander’s fall. Fairfax. 
FORENESS', f. A foreland, a promontory. Not 
much ufed. 
FO RENOON, f. The time of day reckoned from the 
middle point, between the dawn and the meridian, to the 
meridian : oppofed to afternoon. —Curio, at the funeral of 
his father, built a temporary theatre, confifting of two 
parts turning on hinges, according to the pofition of the 
fun, for the conveniency of forenoon's and afternoon’s di- 
verfion. Arbiitknot. 
FORENO'TICE, f. Information of an event before it 
happens.—So ftrange a revolution never happens in poe¬ 
try, but either heaven or earth gives fome forenotice of it. 
Rymer. 
FOREN'SIC, adj. forenfs, Lat.] Belonging to courts 
of judicature. The forum was a public place in Rome, 
■where lawyers and orators made their fpeeches before the 
proper judges in matters of property, or in criminal cafes: 
thence all forts of deputations in courts of juftice, where 
feveral perfons make their diftindt fpeeches, may come 
under the name of forenfic difputes. Watts. 
To FOREORDA'IN, v. a. To predeflinate ; to pre¬ 
determine ; to preordain.—The church can difcharge, 
in manner convenient, a work of fo great importance, by 
foreordaining fome (hort collect wherein briefly to mention 
thanks. Hooker. 
FO'REPART, f. The part firfl in time.—Had it been 
fo railed, it would deprive us of the fun’s light all the 
forepart of the day. Raleigh. —The part anterior in place.— 
The ribs have no cavity in them, and towards th forepart 
or bread are broad and thin, to bend and give way with¬ 
out danger of fradture. Ray. 
FO'REPAST, adj. Palt before a certain time.—Such 
is the treaty which he negociates with us, an offer and 
tender of a reconciliation, an ait of oblivion, of all j'orc - 
pajl (ins, and of a new covenant. Hammond. 
My forcpajl proofs, howe’er the matter fall. 
Shall tax my fears of little vanity, 
Having vainly fear’d too little. Skakefpeare. 
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FOREPOSSES'SED, adj. Preoccupied; prepoffeffed ; 
pre-engaged.—The teflimony either of the ancient fathers, 
or of other claffical divines, may be clearly and abun¬ 
dantly anfwered, to the fatisfaition of any rational man, 
not extremely forepojfejjed with prejudice. Sanderfon. 
FOREPRPZED, adj. Alawterm. Excepted, exclu¬ 
ded. Scott. 
To FO'RERAKF,, v. To rake the fore-part of a (hip,, 
FO'RERANK, J'. Firfl rank ; front: 
Yet leave our coufin Catharine here with us; 
She is our capital demand, compris’d 
Within the forerank of our articles. Skakefpeare. 
To FORERE'ACH, v. a. A fea term; to fail fafter 
than another (hip. 
To FORE-RE'AD, v. a. To foretoken: 
Which his. young toward years 
Did largely promife, and to him fore.read. Sptnfer. 
FORERECI'TED, adj. Mentioned or enumerated be¬ 
fore : 
Bid him recount 
The forerecited practices, whereof 
We cannot feel too little, hear too much. Skakefpeare. 
To FORERU'N, v. a. To come before as an earned of 
fomething following ; to introduce as an harbinger : 
She bids me hope : oh heav’ns, (he pities me ! 
And pity (till foreruns approaching love, 
As lightning does the thunder. Dryden. 
To precede : to have the (tart of.—I heard it to be a 
maxim at Dublin to follow, if not forerun , all that is or 
will be pradtifed in London. Graunt. 
FORERUN'NER, f. An harbinger ; a meffenger fent 
before to give notice of the approach of thole that follow. 
—A cock was facrificed as the J'orerunner of day and the 
fun, thereby acknowledging the light of life to be derived 
from the divine bounty, the daughter of providence. 
Stilling feet. 
My elder brothers, my forerunners came, 
Rough draughts of nature, ill defign’d oind lame : 
Blown off, like bloffoms never made to bear; 
’Till I camefinifh’d, her laft labour’d care. Dryden. 
A prognoflic ; a fign forertiowing any thing.—Lofs of 
fight is the mifery of life, and ufually the forerunner of 
death. South. —The keeping infenfible perfpiration up in 
due meafure is the caufe as well as fign of health, and the 
lead deviation from that due quantity, the certain fore¬ 
runner of a difeafe. Arbuthnot. 
Already opera prepares the way, 
The fure forerunner of her gentle fway. Pope. 
To FORESA'Y, v. a. To predict; to prophecy ; to 
foretell: 
Let ordinance 
Come as the gods forejay it. Skakefpeare. 
To FORESE'E, v. a. To fee beforehand; to fee what 
has not yet happened; to have prefcience ; to foreknow : 
At his forefeen approach, already quake 
The Cafpian kingdoms and Meotian lake : 
Their feers behold the temped from afar, 
And threat’ning oracles denounce the war. Dryden. 
To provide for; with to. Out of ufe. —A king againfl a 
ftorm muft forefee to a convenient flock of treafure. Bacon. 
FORESE'ER, f. One that forefees things.—There 
are fome fuch very great forefeers, that they grow into the 
vanity of pretending to fee, where nothing is to be feen. 
M. of Halifax. 
To FORESIIA'ME, v. a. To (hame; to bring reproach 
upon : 
Oh bill , foreflaming 
Thofe rich-left heirs, that let their fathers lie 
Without a monument. Skakefpeare. 
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