FOR 
FORESHE'W, f Sign: 
With vermii drops at e’en his treffes bleed, 
Forejhews of future heat. » Fairfax. 
To FO'RESHEW, v. a. See Foreshow. 
I'O'RESHIP, f. The anterior part of the fiiip.—The 
fhipmen would have cad anchors out of the forejhip. ABs, 
Kxvii. 30. 
To FORESHOR'TEN, v. a. To fliorten figures for the 
fake of fhewing thofe behind.—The greateft parts of the 
body ought to appear fp re mo ft ; and he forbids the fore- 
Jhortenings, becaufe they make the parts appear little. 
Dry den. 
FORESHORT'ENING, f. The aft of (hortening be¬ 
fore ; the date of being fiiurtened before. Dryden. 
To FORESHOW', v. a. To difcover before it happens, 
to predift ; to prognodicate.—-Chrid had called him to 
be a witnefs of his death, and refurreftion from the dead; 
according to that which the prophets and Mofes had J'ore- 
Jhowed. Hooker. 
Next, like Aurora, Spender rofe, 
Whofe purple bludi the day fonjhbm. Denham. 
To reprefent before it comes.—What elfe is the law but 
the gofpel forefhowed? What other the gofpel than the 
law fulfilled? Hooker. 
FORESHROU'DS, f. A fea term ; the fhrouds be¬ 
longing to the forefail. 
FO'RESIDE, f. Specious outfide : 
Thefe counterfeits were thus unca-fed 
Out of the forefide of their forgerie. Spenfer. 
FO'RESIGFIT, f. Prefcience; prognodication; fore¬ 
knowledge. The accent anciently on the laft fyllable: 
Let Eve, for I have drench’d her eyes, 
Here deep below ; whilft thou to forejight wak’d ; 
As once thou deep’d whilft die to life was form’d. Milton. 
Provident care of futurity.—Difficulties and temptations 
1 will more eafily be borne or avoided, if with prudent/err- 
fight we arm ourfelves againft them. Rogers. 
FORESIGHT'FU L, adj. Prefcient; provident.— 
Death gave him no fuch pangs as the forefightful care he 
had of his filly fucceffor. Sidney. 
To FORESIG'NIFY, v. a. To betoken beforehand; 
to forefiiow ; to typify; 
' Yet as being pad times noxious, where they light 
On man, bead, plant, wadeful and turbulent, 
They oft forcfignify and threaten ill. Milton. 
FO'RESKIN, y. The.prepuce: 
Their own hand 
An hundred of the foe fhall day. 
And for a dow’r their hundred forejldns pay. Cowley. 
FO'RESKIRT, f. The pendulous or loofe part of the 
coat before : 
A thoufand pounds a year for pure refpedt! 
That promifes more thoufands : honour’s train 
Is longer than his forejliirt. Shahefpeare. 
To FORESLACK', or Forslack, v. a. To negleft 
by idlenefs.—It is a great pity that fo good an opportu¬ 
nity was omitted, and fo happy an occafion forejlacked , that 
might have been the eternal good of the land. Spenfer. — 
To put off: 
For dread of daunger not to be redred. 
If he for flouth forflackt fo famous gued. Spenfer. 
To FORESLO'W, v. a. To delay ; to hinder; to im¬ 
pede ; to obdruft : 
Now the illudrious nymph return’d again, 
Brings every grace triumphant in her train: 
The wond’ring nereids, though they rais’d no dorm, 
Forejlow'd her paflage to behold her form. Dryden. 
To negleft ; to omit.—Our good purpofes foreflowed are 
become our tormentors upon our death-bed. Bi/hot Hall. 
Vol. VII. No. 450. 
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To FORESLO'W, v.n. To be dilatory ; to loiter: 
This may plant courage in their qyailing breads, 
For yet is hope of life and victory, 
Foreflowj no longer, make we hence amain. Shahefpeare. 
To FORESPE'AK, or Forspeak, v.n. To predict; 
to fore fa y ; to forediow ; to foretell.—Old Godfrey of 
Winchefter, thinketh no ominous forefpealing to lie in 
names. Camden. —To forbid : 
Thou had forefpoke my being in thefe wars, 
And fay’d it is not fit.. Shakefpeare. 
Or our ill fortunes, or the world's ill eye 
Forjpeak our good. Return from Parnaffus. 
FORESPE'NT, or Forspent, adj. Waded; tired; 
fpent: 
After him came fpurring hard 
A gentleman almoft forfpent with fpeed. Shakefpeare. 
Forepaffed ; pad.—Is not enough thy evil life forefpent. 
Spenfer. —Beftowed before : 
We mud receive him 
According to the honour of his fender; 
And towards himfelf, his goodnefs forefpent on us, 
We mud extend our notice. Shakefpeare , 
FORESPUR'RER, One that rides before : 
A day io April never came fo fweet, 
To diow how codly dimmer was at hand, 
As this forefpurrer comes before his lord. Shahefpeare. 
FOR'EST, f. [French ; forefa , Ital.] A wild uncul¬ 
tivated trad! of ground interfperfed with wood.—By many 
tribulations we enter into the kingdom of heaven, becaufe, 
in a forejl of many wolves, fheep cannot choofe but feed in 
continual danger of life. Hooker. 
Macbeth fiiall never vanquidi’d be, until 
Great Birnham-wood to Dunfinane’s high hill 
Shall come againft him. 
-That will never be : 
Who can imprefs the forejl, bid the tree 
Unfix his earth-bound root ? Shakefpeare. 
Forests are of that antiquity in England, that (except 
the New Foreft in Hamplhire, eredlea by William called 
the Conqueror, and Hampton Court, erected by Henry 
VIII.) it is faid there is no record or hidory that make 
any mention of their erections and beginnings ; though 
they are mentioned by feveral writers; and in many of 
our laws and datutes. 4 Injl. 319. Our ancient hidorians 
tell us, “that New\Foreft was raifed by the dedrudtion 
of twenty-two parith churches, and many villages, cha¬ 
pels, and manors, for the fpace of thirty miles together; 
which was attended with divers judgments on the pofte- 
rity of king William I. who erefted it; for William Ru¬ 
fus was there diot with an arrow, and before him Ri¬ 
chard the brother of Henry I. was there killed ; and Hen¬ 
ry, nephew to Robert, the elded foil of the Conqueror, 
did hang by the hair of the head in the boughs of the fa¬ 
red like unto Abfalom.” Blount. 
Beddes the New Fored, there are fixty-dght other fo- 
refts in England : thirteen chafes, and more than feven 
hundred parks: the four principal farefts are New Fo¬ 
reft on the Sea, Shirewood Fored on the Trent, Dean Fc- 
reft on the Severn, and Windfar Foreft on the. Thames. 
The ancient way of making a fared is thus: Certain 
commidioners are appointed under the great feal of Eng¬ 
land, who view the ground intended-for a fared, and 
fence it round with metes and bounds; which being re¬ 
turned into the chancery, the king caufes it to be pro¬ 
claimed throughout the county where the land lieth, 
that it is a fared, and to be governed by the laws of the 
fared, and prohibits all perfons from hunting there with¬ 
out his leave, and he appoints officers far the prefervation 
of the vert and venifon, and hence it becomes a fared on 
7 E record. 
