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fore-, prefix
In OE. the adv. fore (like its equivalent in various other Teut. langs.) was used as a prefix (1) to verbs, giving the additional sense of ‘before’ (either in time, position, order, or rank), and (2) to ns. either forming designations of objects or parts of objects occupying a front position, or expressing anteriority in time. (Cf. OE. forecweðan, Goth. fauraqiþan, OHG. foraquedan to predict; OE. foregangan, Goth. fauragaggan to precede; OE. foretóð, Ger. vorzahn front tooth, etc.). The prefix has through all stages of the language continued to be a living formative in all its uses. The principal combinations are in this work treated as Main words in their alphabetical place; those which are of merely occasional use, or self-explanatory, are enumerated in this article.
I. In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)
1. With the sense ‘in front’, as in foregird, fore-lie, fore-lift (all Obs. or arch.). Also in agent-nouns, as † forespurrer, forerunner, forewalker.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 791 Severus *foregirded and fensed Britain with a ditch from sea to sea.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iii. 29 A golden bauldricke, which *forelay Athwart her snowy brest.
Ibid. i. xi. 15 *Fore-lifting up a-loft his speckled brest. 1769Falconer Shipwr. iii. 582 The ship, fore-lifted by the sea.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 95 This *fore-spurrer.
2. = ‘Beforehand’, ‘previously’, ‘in advance’.
Formerly, esp. in 16–17th c., the prefix was used with any vb. to which it was desired to give this additional meaning. The number of recorded combinations of this kind is therefore enormous, and only a selection of them can here be given. Now, however, the use of the prefix, except in established combinations such as foresee, foretell, or in new combinations closely analogous to these, is felt to be somewhat archaistic or affected; in ordinary prose usage the meaning is expressed by the addition of an adverb, or (in verbs of obvious Lat. or Rom. derivation) by the prefix pre-.
a. in verbs, as fore-accustom, fore-acquaint, fore-adapt, fore-admonish, fore-advertise, fore-advise, fore-allot, fore-answer, fore-assign, fore-balance, fore-bespeak, fore-bless, fore-calculate, fore-compose, fore-comprehend, fore-conclude, fore-condemn, fore-consider, fore-contrive, fore-count, fore-date, fore-declare, fore-decree, fore-design, fore-dispose, fore-divine, fore-engage, fore-exist, fore-expect, fore-express, fore-fear, fore-figure, fore-fit, fore-fix, fore-grasp, fore-haste, fore-instruct, fore-learn, fore-lend, fore-mean, fore-order, fore-paint, fore-picture, fore-plan, fore-poison, fore-promise, fore-reckon, fore-repent, fore-report, fore-request, fore-resemble, fore-scent, fore-season, fore-seize, fore-send, fore-shape, fore-shoe, fore-sing, fore-smell, fore-sound, fore-steep, fore-study, fore-suffer, fore-summon, fore-suspect, fore-threaten, fore-trace, fore-use, fore-utter, fore-vow, fore-ween, fore-weep, fore-weigh.
1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxii, *Fore-accustoming the mind to evil.
1624Gataker Transubst. To Rdr., This is all that..I was desirous by way of Preface to *fore-acquaint thee withall.
1696Whiston Th. Earth iv. (1722) 294 He foresaw and *foreadapted the entire Frame.
1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 396 Who *fore-admonished me that [etc.].
1598Barret Theor. Warres iv. ii. 105 To *fore aduertise the souldiers by the drumme maior. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 206 Fore-advertising them..of all their affairs of Importance by the mouths of his Prophets.
1604Hieron Wks. I. Advt. to Rdr. 671 This short catechisme..*fore⁓aduiseth thee of the certainty of diuers afflictions.
1587Golding De Mornay ix. 121 Whatsoeuer he had *foreallotted them of his goodnesse.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy i. §1 If all my proofes be..*fore-answered by his Bellarmine. 1713Bentley Free-thinking i. xxix. 147 Notwithstanding he had foreanswered..all that he can say about Different Interpretations.
1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 333 God the Father, who from eternity had *fore-assigned Christ to this office of a mediator.
1612J. Cotta Dangers Practisers Phys. i. v. 43 Where..the strength of nature hath..bene carefully *foreballanced betweene hope and hazard.
1682Bunyan Holy War 67 Thy evil fruit *fore⁓bespeaks thee not to be a good tree.
1630Drayton Moses i. 63 By th' eternal prouidence *fore-blest.
1864Spectator 20 Aug. 963/1 Some great crisis not to be definitely *fore⁓calculated.
1684Baxter Twelve Argts. §1. 5 No man knoweth before-hand, whether a Minister hath studied and *fore comp[o]sed his..Sermon.
1652Gaule Magastrom. vii. 78 Whether it be not quite contradictory to the nature of future contingents to be *fore-comprehended by any created intellect.
1618Daniel Hist. Eng. 12 They held the same confederation *fore-concluded by Alfred.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 258 To prejudice and *forecondemne his adversary in the title for slanderous and scurrilous.
1677Otway Cheats of Scapin ii. i. Wks. 1728 I. 208 These things premis'd, and *fore-consider'd.
1652Bp. Hall Invis. World i. §6 Abraham saw an angel *fore-contriving the work.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. ix. 173 They *forecount their wives fair, fruitfull, and rich. 1859Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 97 But why should I forecount as yet The ravage of that vulture brood?
1858H. Bonar Hymns Faith & Hope 10 Faith *foredates the joyful day.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iii. iii. 155 His death..had bin *fore-declared. 1696Willard Body of Divinity (1726) 359/2 The same which was foredeclared by the angel.
1618Daniel Hist. Eng. 162 God had *fore-decreed to make it his owne worke by a cleaner way.
1645Wither Vox Pacif. 141 Of that, which God himselfe, did *fore-designe. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (J.), All the steps of the growth and vegetation..have been..foredesigned by the wise Author of nature.
a1661Fuller (Webster), King James had by promise *foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 142 Which doe *fore-divine, and are, as it were, prophets.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. ii. vii. (1654) 132 Your former vow or oath hath *fore-ingaged you to a just discovery.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 33 If the disposed matter do *fore-exist. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel vi. 298 They, then, fore-existing; this, derived from them.
1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 47 So as no man can *fore-expect the day.
1628Wither Brit. Rememb. 276 The fourth true token which doth *fore-expresse The ruine of a land for wickednesse.
1586Whetstone Engl. Mirror 121 Little *forefeared he that God would make him the capitall offender of the Romish superstition.
1534More Treat. Passion Wks. 1323/2 The old sacrifices..*fore fygured the..sacrifice of Christes blessed bodye.
1622S. Ward Life of Faith (1627) 57 Such as..fore-know their death, yet..*fore-fit themselues neuer the more carefully.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxi. 9 The time which the heavenly father hath *fore fixed. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion i. iii. 28 They who made us and forefixed our fate, The Titans.
1880G. Macdonald Diary of an Old Soul 5 May, A greater thing Than purest imagination can *foregrasp.
1820Milman Fall Jerusalem 154 Am I in heaven, and thou *forehasted thither To welcome me?
1617Bp. Hall Quo Vadis? §24 Let them carefully *fore-instruct..themselues with the sound knowledge of the principles of religion.
1855Singleton Virg. Georg. i. 344 Hence can we *forelearn The weather in th' uncertain sky.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. iii. 6 Carelesse of perill..As if that life to losse they had *forelent.
1608B. Jonson Masque Beauty Wks. (Rtldg.) 548/2 As being the place, by Destiny *forement. a1743Savage Wks. (1775) II. 221 (Jod.) Has he foremeant some distant age to bless? 1870Lowell Among Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 224 Without foremeaning it, he had [etc.].
1873Ibid. Ser. ii. 87 Providence therefore *foreordered two ends to be pursued by man.
1627S. Ward Christ All in All 11 As if the Scriptures..had not *forepainted out such an Antichrist.
1634Jackson Creed vii. Christ's Answ. §54 By the fall of Lebanon..he *forepictures the extirpation of David's royal race.
1796Jane Austen Sense & Sens. iii. 46 What had been already..*foreplanned in her own mind.
1584Discov. Throckmorton's Treas. 2 Such as are not forestalled, or rather *forepoysoned..with the lies alreadie spred.
1565T. Stapleton Fort. Faith 65 The calling of the gentils *fore⁓promised. a1656Bp. Hall Specialties in his life (1660) 27 It was fore-promised to one of my fellow Chaplains.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iv. 469, I, who should have known, *Forereckoned mischief!
1590Greene Neuer too late (1600) 62 He that *forerepents, forsees many perils.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxiii. 218 But Fame falls most short..chiefly in *fore-reporting the Happinesse in heaven.
1655― Ch. Hist. ii. iii. §38 Offa had *fore⁓requested the granting of these Priviledges from the Pope.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. v. (1851) 113 He..argues that Christ..was as well *fore-resembled by the Kings then, as by the high Priest.
1652Gaule Magastrom. xxvi, Metoposcopy, boasts herself to *foresent all the beginnings, the progresses, and the ends of men.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 45 Hauing so well *fore-season'd thy minds caske.
1682Tate Abs. & Achit. ii. 976 Proceed, illustrious, happy chief..*Foreseize the garlands for thy brow decreed. 1818Milman Samor 87 To foreseize from Fate Thy slow existence.
c1000ælfric Gram. xxviii. (Z.) 172 Praemitto, ic *foresende. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cv. v, He for them to ægipt had foresent The slave-sold Joseph.
1842Sir H. Taylor Edwin iii. iii, We shall so *foreshape the minds of men That..It shall be hailed acceptable.
a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 174 They begin to travel again in a white sand, being *fore-shod with shoes, whose single soles are made [etc.].
1563Mirr. Mag., Hastings liv, Swannelyke I *foresong my death. 1634Habington Castara (Arb.) 35 He was a Prophet, and fore-sang my love.
a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk. (1843) II. 343 Manie of his servants *forsmelling danger, left him.
1648Herrick Hesper. 146 Which *fore-sounds A plentious harvest to your grounds.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 155 The ground then soking makes The seed *foresteept in poison strong.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices ii. 81 Lucius Crassus did showe himself in open courte to do that verie⁓well having *forestudied. 1647Fuller Good Th. in Worse T. (1841) 134 The party praying..fore-studieth not every expression.
1839Bailey Festus xxviii. (1848) 335 But I foresee, *fore-suffer. 1923T. S. Eliot Waste Land iii. 17 And I Tiresias have foresuffered all.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars vii. lxii, The Parlement..Which his Associates had *fore-summoned.
a1612Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 68 *Fore-suspecting that hee should not easily remove that desire of dying.
1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 103 Which these so many, and so manyfest likelihoodes did *forethreaten. 1656Trapp Comm. Matt. iii. 10 Edom is forethreatened for not harbouring them when scattered by the Chaldeans.
1833Wordsw. Warning 133 Paths no human wisdom can *foretrace!
a1612Donne βιαθανατος (1648) 216 Except where a competent diligence being *fore-used, a mistaking in our conscience may provide an excuse.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 88 Theese stoans king Helenus, theese ragd rocks rustye *forevttred. 1839Bailey Festus xxxii. (1848) 352 The prophecies Of God fore-uttered through the tongues of Time.
1615Daniel Hymen's Tri. Poems (1717) 124 A Heart *forevow'd unto a better Choice.
1587T. Hughes Misfort. Arthur iii. i. (1828) 46 *Foreweening nought what perils might insue.
1763Churchill Poems, Duellist 1, The sky in sullen drops of rain *Forewept the morn.
1819Crabbe T. of Hall, Patron 75 When each indulgence was *foreweigh'd with care.
b. in ppl. adjs., as fore-bemoaned, fore-biased, fore-boasted, fore-commended, fore-created, fore-dated, fore-defined, fore-denounced, fore-described, fore-deserved, fore-devised, fore-devote, fore-done, fore-fated, fore-formed, fore-hinting, fore-impressed, fore-inclined, fore-intimated, fore-led, fore-made, fore-misgiving, fore-noted, fore-obtained, fore-opinioned, fore-penned, fore-pretended, fore-provided, fore-recited, fore-rehearsed, fore-remembered, fore-settled, fore-specified, fore-typified, fore-vouched, fore-wished, fore-wonted. Also fore-littering, littering prematurely; fore-riped, ripened too early; premature. fore-wrought, ? tampered with beforehand.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxx, The sad account of *fore-bemoned mone.
1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xxix. 751 The Malicious Prejudices..of His accusers and *fore⁓byass'd Judges.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlix. 228 Gods sole Prouidence Did cleare *fore-bosted Conquest..hence.
1642Cudworth Lord's Supper vi. (1676) 34 Which I will confirm from that *forecommended place.
1587Golding De Mornay ix. 118 Whether the Worlde was created after the pattern of a thing *forecreated, or of a thing without a beginning.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. (1851) 148 An abortive and *foredated discovery.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. iv. 103 The proper and *fore-defined sence.
1604Hieron Wks. I. To Rdr. 553 Romes long-deserued and *fore-denounced ouerthrow.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 28 The *foredescribed name of Poets.
1580― Arcadia iv. (1598) 416 Their *fore-deserued punishment.
1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 38 It was a deliberation voluntary and *foredeuised.
1889Sat. Rev. 7 Sept. 262/1 There is a sort of tourists *foredevote to mischance.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 125 The fruit of *foredone sacrifices.
1839Bailey Festus (1848) 38 The statesman makes new laws for growing worlds, Through their *fore⁓fated ages.
1767H. Brooke Fool of Qual. II. viii. 31 No *foreformed evasions or contrivances for escape.
1868Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 420 A strange, enigmatic, yet apparently *forehinting utterance.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. ii. lx, Swayd By sense, and *fore⁓imprest Astronomie.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. iii. ii. 227 A *fore-inclined minde.
1631Gouge God's Arrows Ded. 5 The *fore-intimated arrowes.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 101 Their *fore-led life.
1583Stanyhurst æneis Ded. (Arb.) 8 Like as *forelittring bitches whelp blynde puppies.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxiii. 217 If such *foremade reports prove true.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. x. (1593) 248 Her *foremisgiving mind did also make her sad.
1583Stanhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 118 Thee *forenoted offrings.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 43 Perpend the grace, the trust and trade, of *foreobteyned wyfe.
1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xxviii. 48 Men are *fore-opinion'd of him for a politic man.
1549Chaloner tr. Erasm. Moriæ Enc. A j, Their longe and *fore⁓penned oracions.
1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. liv. 587 All..were but *fore-pretended falsehoods.
1850Lynch Theo. Trin. i. 15 *Fore-provided signals.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. ii. 127 The *fore-recited practises. 1661J. Stephens Procurations 142 According to the fore-recited Act.
1526Tindale N.T. Prol., This *forerehearced newe testament.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1230/2 The *fore-remembred Coniers vicar of saint Martins in Norwich. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 170 My fore remembred Author.
1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) O viij, The *fore ryped prymetyme prouoked them therto.
1587Golding De Mornay Pref. 10 For..*fore-setled opinions doo bring in bondage.
1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. i. ii. 12 The *fore⁓specified commands.
1693Chauncy Enq. Gosp. New Law 34 The great Sacrifice so long *fore-typified.
1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 223 Your *fore-voucht affection [must] Fall into taint.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Chandos 98 Had I taken the oportunitie..The towne had I surprised speedilie And well atchiued *fore-wished pretence.
1647H. More Song of Soul App. iii. xviii, Even so the ghosts..Walk in their *forewonted coast.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §16. 489 To reduce those partes to his Allegiance..was no hard matter to effect; the greater part of Commaunders there (being *fore-wrought) expecting nothing more..then these perfidious assaults.
c. in vbl. ns., as fore-aboding, fore-accounting, fore-being, fore-building, fore-catching, fore-damning, fore-enjoying, fore-fearing, fore-glooming, fore-living, fore-misgiving, fore-placing, fore-planting, fore-poling, fore-schooling, fore-shaping, fore-understanding, fore-whipping, fore-whispering.
a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 199 Yet from some *Fore-abodings I divine, I David like, the Temple may design.
1580Sidney Arcadia i. 85 But *fore⁓accounting oft makes builders misse.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 10 For this is it, that he meaneth by ioyning the *forebeyng to the present beyng. 1662Glanvill Lux Orient. xii. (1682) 92 In the state of our Fore-Beings.
1581Mulcaster Positions v. (1887) 26 That, which must follow their *forebuilding.
1625Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 86 Some *fore-catchings of the shadowes of things to come.
1615Byfield Expos. Coloss. iii. 6 That can but seriously consider..God's reprobating or *fore-damning of millions of men.
1640Bp. Reynolds Passions (1658) 985 Under pretence of devoting themselves to contemplation and a *fore-enjoying of the light of God.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 65 The *forefearing that if emptiness far and wide were not granted, the world would not be bounded.
1880W. Watson Prince's Quest. Vanishings (1892) 147 Vague *foregloomings of the Dark to be.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy v. xxxvi, The Kynge was to her in all his *fore liuinge Louyng and true in all maner thinge.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 143 The *foremisgiving of his mind did make them sore afraid.
1611Cotgr., Premise, a *fore⁓placing, a setting before.
Ibid., Preplantement, a *fore⁓planting or former setting. 1881R. W. Raymond Gloss. Mining Terms, Fore⁓poling, a method of securing drifts in progress through quicksand by driving ahead poles, lath, boards, slabs, etc., to prevent the inflow of the quicksand on the sides and top, the face being protected by breastboards. 1967Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) xi. 8 Forepoling, the use of girders or bars projecting forward in cantilever as temporary supports beneath newly exposed roof.
1886Lowell Pr. Wks. (1890) VI. 163 Is it so good a *fore-schooling for Life?
1892Athenæum 16 Apr. 496/2 Some clear *foreshapings of that new order.
1550Bale Sel. Wks. (1849) 498 And I (saith St. John) perceived it evidently in my *fore-understanding, that this woman..was all drunken in the bloody slaughter of saints.
1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1625) 194 This *forewhipping I take to be a matter vnquestionable.
1880W. Watson Prince's Quest. (1892) 20 Perchance To hear *forewhisperings of their destiny.
d. in nouns of action, as fore-advice, fore-choice, fore-consent, fore-designment, fore-determination, fore-guidance, fore-payment, fore-proffer, fore-provision, fore-revelation, fore-spousals, fore-sufferance, fore-trial.
1598Florio, Premonitione, a premonition..a *foreaduise.
1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1634) 260 God's..promise. and *fore-choice of his people.
1615Chapman Odyss. xiii. 194 The *fore-consent Thou hadst vouchsafed it.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 21 A *fore-designement of better things to come.
1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 38 His owne blinde preiudices, and *fore-determinations.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. xv. (1611) 230 Without the *fore⁓guidance of a valiant leader.
1807Southey Lett. (1856) II. 9, I had 100l. of him in *forepayment for the first edition.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke i. 77 A *foreprofer to the abolishing of synne.
1611Cotgr., Preparation, a preparation or *fore-prouision.
a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 552 The event did answer his *fore-revelation.
a1639Webster App. & Virg. iv. ii, Divorc'd from her *fore-spousals with Icilius.
1629Jackson Creed vi. ii. xxxii. §7 His experience on *foresufferance of the like evils.
1868W. Hanna Ministry in Galilee iii. 50 A short *fore-trial might be made of the work.
II. Prefixed to ns. (Stress chiefly on the prefix, exc. where this is liable to be apprehended as an adj.; in many words the stress is variable).
3. With reference to place.
a. With sense, ‘that is in the front’, or ‘in front of something’, ‘directed to the front’; = front- (by which it is now often replaced), as fore-axle, fore-chamber, fore-corner, fore-courtyard, fore-covert, fore-desk, fore-face, fore-flap, fore-gallery, fore-glass, fore-hall, fore-hill, fore-log, fore-nook, fore-parlour, fore-pillow, fore-place, fore-plate, fore-porch, fore-post, fore-quarter, fore-rank, fore-rib, fore-shop, fore-skirt, fore-tail, fore-way, fore-wedge, fore-wheel.
1822J. Imison Sc. & Art I. 103 The *fore-axle must sustain as much more friction.
1622H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 106 Gluttony is the *fore-chamber of lust. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxxii. X. 665 The fore-chambers and back-chambers of the various temples.
1805P. Wakefield Dom. Recreat. x. 137 The *fore-corner of the same eye-lid.
1623Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) II. 430 The *forecourt⁓yard of the French ambassador's house.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxiv. vi. 249 Of undermining and the fabrickes *fore-covert and defence, Nevita and Dagalaiphus had the charge.
c1515in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 483 Lvj Stalles in the lower degrees with the *foredeskes for the same.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. ix. (1634) 32 From the right side..and *foreface of the great arterie.
1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman-hater v. i, My *foreflap hangs in the right place. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. (1783) IV. 3 The fore-flap of his coat.
1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 19, I have made the *Fore⁓galleries..as I fancy they ought to have been.
1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 125, I was afraid of Robin's looking back, through the *fore-glass [of the coach].
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 210 To the one side a *fore-hall, the schoolroom.
1776Phil. Trans. LXVI. 527 Its *forehills are almost every where composed of rocks and strata, rising very steep to the horizon.
1883E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones 68 They [the backlogs] were buried in embers and then supplemented with *forelogs.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 36 They beginne with the farr *fore-nooke, and after that with the neare fore-nooke, then with the farr hinder nooke.
1747Scheme Equip. Men of War 59 Their *Fore-Parlours, or Dining Rooms.
1617Markham Caval. vi. 51 The *fore-pillowes must stand so directly that they may defend the Ryders knees from the neather point of the bare tree.
1878Morley Carlyle 194 Laughter has a *fore-place in life.
1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 108 The first Piece or *fore-Plate.
1535Goodly Primer Ps. c. 3 Into his *foreporches with praise.
1870Daily News 24 Sept., A Jager regiment formed the infantry *foreposts in a line of villages.
c1430Two Cookery-bks. i. 6 Take fayre beef of þe rybbys of þe *fore quarterys. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/2 A fore-quarter of lamb.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, v. ii. 97 Compris'd Within the *fore-ranke of our Articles. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. xlix. 10 Judah had the forerank among the tribes in the wilderness.
1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xii. 276 Fore quarter. Five ribs, called the *fore-rib.—This is considered the primest roasting piece [of beef]. 1895Daily News 9 Jan. 6/2, 17 foreribs of beef.
1633Ford Love's Sacr. iii. i, Shut up your *fore-shop, I'll be your journeyman no longer.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iii. 98 Honours traine Is longer than his *fore-skirt. 1665J. Wilson Projectors ii. i. Dram. Wks. (1874) 218 One doublet with a new pair of foreskirts.
1732E. Forrest Hogarth's Tour 8 The *fore-tail of his shirt.
1631Househ. Ord. 349 The *foreway for the chappell.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §4 *Forewedge and helewedge.
1728Vanbr. & Cib. Prov. Husb. i. Wks. (1730) 222 The two *fore⁓wheels came crash down at once. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art I. 103 In all four-wheeled carriages, the fore-wheels are made of a less size than the hind ones.
b. Indicating the front part of something; as fore-brain, fore-palate, fore-shaft, fore-shoulder.
1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man II. xx. 225 The highest activities of the animal body..have their seat in the *fore-brain.
1872Beames Comp. Gram. Aryan Lang. India I. ix. 326 A larger portion of the tongue's surface being brought into contact with the *fore-palate.
1883E. F. Im Thurn Indians Guiana xi. 245 The *foreshaft [of arrow] and the blunt head.
1857Holland Bay Path xvii. 196 Then he'll let me have it just back o' the *fore-shoulder.
c. Indicating one of the front limbs of an animal; as fore-claw, fore-fin, fore-flipper, fore-hoof, fore-knee, fore-limb, fore-pad, fore-paw, † fore-talon. (Stress often on the n.)
1769Phil. Trans. LX. 37 On its *fore-claws are five strong long nails.
1779–80Cook Voy. (1785) II. 457 The dam..holds the young one between her *fore-fins.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlv. (1856) 417 Behind the *fore-flippers.
1770G. White Selborne xxviii. 79 The *fore-hoofs were upright and shapely.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 121 And then stayeth his body vpon the *fore-knees.
1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1802) I. 199 Quadrupeds that have collar⁓bones use their *fore-limbs in some measure as we use our hands.
1879Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 8 These animals, [rabbits], strike with the *fore-pads as if boxing.
1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 110 Throwing one of the bear's great *fore-paws at him.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 113 They opened the vein of the *fore talon.
d. Naut. Chiefly in words denoting some ‘part of a ship's frame and machinery which lies near the stem, or in that direction, in opposition to aft or after’ (Adm. Smyth); also of parts connected with the foremast (opposed to main-, mizen-); as fore-bitts, fore-bonnet, fore-bowline, fore-brace, fore-bridge, fore-cap, fore-cat-harpings, fore-chains, fore-cluegarnet, fore-course, fore-downhaul, fore-hatch, fore-hatchway, fore-hood, fore-keel, fore-lee, fore-rake, fore-rigging, fore-royal, fore-scuttle, fore-shrouds, fore-spoke, fore-spritsail, fore-tackle, fore-truck, fore-trysail.
1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 411 Their first shot went right through the hull of the brig, just abaft the *fore-bits.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. 17 Unbind all things clear of it, and bring too the *Fore-bonnet.
Ibid. 18 Hawl bout *fore Bowline.
Ibid. 17 Hawl aft the Sheets, get aft on the Quarter Deck, the *fore Braces. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 213 The jaws of the fore-brace block.
1893Adm. Markham in Daily News 3 July 5/7 The Admiral came forward to the *fore-bridge.
1748Anson's Voy. iii. i. 297 The Gloucester's *forecap split.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Fore Cat-harpings. 1720*Fore-chains [see chain 14 b]. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 193 From the stem to the fore-chains.
1825H. B. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 51 The *Forecluegarnets are Let-run of all.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 96 The fore sayle called sometimes the *fore course. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4380/3 The Firebrand..forc'd in under a Fore-course for the Light of St. Agnes.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. 17 Belay the *fore doon hall.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxi. 112 A large sheep-pen which had been built upon the *forehatch.
1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. II. 162 The *fore-hatch-way.
1819J. H. Vaux Mem. I. 226 Certain parts of the stem, called the *fore-hoods, were loose.
1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxvi. 267 The *Fore-keel of our Poup.
a1802Young Man v. in Child Ballads viii. ccxlv. (1892) 377/1 She'll..gae out your *fore⁓lee.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 4 The *fore Rake is that which giues the ship good way.
1805in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. 167 note, Employed knotting and splicing our *fore-rigging.
1882Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 2/1 He was ordered on to the *foreroyal yard along with another youngster.
1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames ii. 55 He placed the two trunks close to the *fore-scuttle.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 64 Let us go a little way up the *Fore-shrouds.
1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 107 The captain and first lieutenant went aft, and took the *fore⁓spokes of the wheel.
a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 229 A *fore⁓sprit-saile.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict. s.v. Fore, *Fore⁓tackle, a tackle on the fore-mast.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. v. 64 They nail down Quoyners to the *Fore-Trucks of heavy Guns. 1895Century Mag. Aug. 594/2 The admiral's flag at the fore-truck.
1857C. Gribble in Merc. Mar. Mag. (1858) V. 3 *Fore-try-sail.
4. With reference to time.
a. Giving the additional sense of precedence or anticipation; as fore-age, fore-ancestor, fore-assurance, fore-care, fore-consciousness, fore-counsel, fore-day, fore-gleam, fore-glimpse, fore-handsel, fore-hope, fore-impression, fore-king, fore-light, fore-luck, fore-martyr, fore-messenger, fore-notice, fore-notion, fore-order, fore-parent, fore-precedent, fore-resolution, fore-restraint, fore-scene, fore-scent, fore-sense, fore-sentence, fore-shift, fore-sign, fore-sin, fore-splendour, fore-tenant, fore-thrift, fore-year.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 453 b, Where be these Records..of auncient Antiquitye, and of all *foreages?
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 120 Our *fore-ancestors.
1631Donne Biathanatos (1644) 74 A *fore-assurance that else they would escape death by death.
1615P. Smalle Mans May B iij a, Prudence, *Fore-care, and Diligence..are the flow'rs of May.
1843Lowell Glance behind Curtain Poet. Wks. (1879) 49 A *fore-consciousness of their high doom.
1839Bailey Festus (1848) 32/1 *Forecounsel, wisdom, and experience.
a1300Cursor M. 19049 (Cott.) A man was criplid in þe parlesi, And had ben mast all his *fordais.
1857–8Sears Athan. xi. 98 We get even now intimations and *fore-gleams of what it is.
1894Advance (Chicago) 5 Apr., A *fore-glimpse of the Day of Judgment.
1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 9 A *forehansell of the newe lyfe.
1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. x. 233 If therefore through this *fore⁓hope..the excesse of immoderate ioy be abated.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars vi. xxii, A *fore-impression of the right he has.
1876Tennyson Harold iv. iii, Thy fierce *fore⁓kings had clench'd their pirate hides To the bleak church doors.
1853J. Cumming Lect. Miracles (1854) 126 One of the *forelights of the restoration of all things.
1659Torriano, Buona-mano..good hanzell or good *fore-luck.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1636) 75 The other *foremartyrs..hasten themselves unto Martyrdome.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke i. 17 The *foremessagier of the former cumming. 1574Newton Health Mag. T j b, A fore⁓messanger or waymaker to Feuers, Apostumations and Abscesses.
1678T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 38 Some *fore⁓notice of it.
1604Daniel Vision 12 Goddesses Wks. (1717) 239 To the end thou may'st have *Fore-Notion what Powers..take here this Prospective.
1594Carew Tasso (1881) 29 And for all wants *foreorder layd.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 41 Our *fore parentes Adam and Eue.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1114/1 The said alleaged *fore⁓presidents against me.
1629T. Adams Soules Refuge, Wks. 910 Men that want this *fore-resolution.
1594Carew Tasso (1881) 106 How he scornde his rule and *fore-restraint.
1857–8Sears Athan. 12 If the light of the after-scene were turned full on the *fore-scene.
1834I. Taylor Sat. Even. 231 Not free from an appalling *forescent of his own near discomfiture.
1621Cade Serm. 3 With too little..*fore-sence of vengeance, or pricke of conscience. 1840Clough Amours de Voy. iii. 123 The steady fore-sense of a freer and larger existence.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Ark 599 This..old-man..toucht with true repentance, Wth Prophet⁓mouth 'gan thus his Son's *fore-sentence.
1891Labour Commission Gloss. s.v. Shift, One set or shift go underground early in the morning..these are called ‘*foreshift men’. The second set go underground about 9 a.m., and are called ‘backshift men’.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark i. 13 Undoubtedlye he maketh a *foresigne. 1659Macallo Can. Physick 43 Foresigns of life or death.
1530Tindale Answ. More ii. iii. (1573) 293/2 To make satisfaction for his *fore-sinnes.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 115 Fore-shadows, call them rather *fore-splendours, of that Truth.
1814Southey Roderick ii, The *fore-tenant of that holy place.
1869R. Lytton Orval 217 The force of *fore⁓thrift in the fear of want.
1615Chapman Odyss. viii. 603 The sauing trade, The Reuerend for her wisedome (Circe) had In *foreyeares taught him.
b. Indicating the early part of; as fore-night, fore-summer, fore-year; foreday = morning. Chiefly Sc.
1818Hogg Brownie Bodsbeck I. 13 He saw them as weel as it had been *fore-day.
1808–79Jamieson, *Forenicht, the interval between twilight and bed-time.
1887American XIV. 234 The terrible winter and *foresummer of 1854–55.
1545Brunston in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 372 The said cardinal [Beaton] entendis..to bring us gret support in the *foir yere.
5. Special combinations.
a. With reference to place: fore-action, the movement of a horse's front legs; † fore-alley, (in a meeting-house) the alley or passage in front of the desk; † fore-beak, the prow of a vessel; fore-bitter, a sea song (see quots.); † fore-board, the deck or fore-deck; fore-boot: see boot n.1 4 c; † fore-bowels, the part of a horse's belly in front of the girths; † fore-bush (of hair) = forelock; † fore-buttock (jocular), the breast (of a woman); fore-caddie Golf, a caddie who goes in advance of the players to watch where the balls fall; fore-car, an obsolete form of motor-cycle having the passenger's seat in front; † fore-cloth, the covering of a horse's shoulders; † fore-cock (of a hat), see quot. and cock n.6 3; † fore-crag (see quot.); † fore-crop (see quot.); foredeep Geol. , a trench or elongated depression along the edge of an orogenic belt, often beneath the sea; fore-dune, the part of a dune system nearest to the sea; † fore-entry, (a) = fore-court, (b) the porch or gate-house; † fore-fellows, fellow-soldiers in the preceding rank; † fore-flank, (a) the front part of the flank, (b) (see quot. 1796); † fore-gallant, the chief performer (in a morrice-dance); † fore-gear, (a) armour for the front of the body, (b) harness for the front horses of a team; fore-hanging, fore-hearth (see quots.); fore-heater, Salt-making (see quot.); † fore-hip, a trick in wrestling; fore-hock, the hock of the fore-leg of pork or bacon; fore-hooks, Naut. = breast-hooks; fore-kidney = pronephron; † fore-knight Naut. (see quot.); fore-lighter, the first in a ‘gang’ of lighters; † fore-lines, lines drawn directly forward; fore-march, a march forward, in quot. fig.; fore-mark, ? a conspicuous model for imitation; fore-milk, (a) the colostrum (Dorland, 1901); (b) the first milk drawn from a cow at each milking; fore-page, the first page (in a printed work); fore-piece (see quot.); fore-pipe, a brass pipe near the muzzle of a musket, etc., to receive the ramrod; fore-pitch, ? projection; also fig. (G. M. Hopkins); foreplay, stimulation or love-play preceding sexual intercourse; fore-pleasure [tr. G. vorlust (S. Freud Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (1905) iii. 56)], pleasure induced by sexual stimulation; † fore-smock, ? an article of dress worn in front of the smock, an apron; † fore-spar Sc., a swingle-tree for attaching the front horses of a team; fore-starling (see quot.); fore-step, (a) a step forward, (b) pl. steps in front, tracks; fore-stone, a mass of rock that interrupts a vein of ore; also, the front cross-piece of a blast furnace; fore-thwart, fore-train (see quots.); † fore-tow Sc., a rope for attaching the front horses of a team; fore-winning (see quot.).
1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 159 The Spanish horse carries his head high, and his *fore-action is regulated hereby.
1716S. Sewall Diary 9 Sept., They stood in the *Fore-Ally and were admitted, Confessing their Sin of Fornication.
a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 551 After they had ran violently upon one another with their *forebeaks.
1906C. Bridge in C. Stone Sea Songs p. iv, In the Royal Navy the term sea song was unknown. What landsmen would have so designated, blue-jackets called ‘*Fore-bitters’. 1962A. G. Course Dict. Naut. Terms 79 Fore bitters, sea songs sung round the fore bitts... Sea shanties were never sung on these occasions.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. xiii. xv, In vaine it was to pull down all our sailes, And on the *foreboord close to couch the mast.
1580Blundevil Horses Diseases cxi. 51 b, All the shoulder [of the horse] from the maine downward, and betwixt the *forebowels. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. v. (1688) 65 You shall observe your Horse's Sweat, under his Saddle, and Forebowels, if it appear White.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Copete, the *forebush of the haire.
1727Swift, etc. Sylv., Misc. IV. 137 Her *Fore Buttocks to the navel bare.
1792Scots Mag. LIV. 223/2 Dickson was then performing the duty of what is now commonly called a *fore-cadie. 1926Glasgow Herald 27 Dec. 6 An intelligent forecaddy..can materially enhance his prospects.
1904Motor Cycle 11 Apr. 348/1 One of the most highly developed *forecars we have yet seen. 1908Westm. Gaz. 21 May 4/3 My machine was a three-wheeler, known in those days as a forecar. 1963Bird & Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car 90 Tricar, fore-car and light car proper.
1526Househ. Ord. (1790) 205 The King's sadles, bridles, bytts, *forecloathes, and other necessaries. 1627Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 256 He..lay in the field all night with two horses' forecloths under and two cloaks over him.
1668G. Etherege She wou'd if she cou'd iii. iii, Never hat took the *fore-cock and the hind-cock at one motion so naturally.
1591News fr. Scotl. in Brand Pop. Antiq. (1849) III. 8 Found the enemy's mark to be in her [the witch's] *forecrag, or fore part of her throat.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §57 Se that they [fatte-oxen] be soft on the *fore⁓croppe, behynde the shulder.
1909H. B. C. Sollas tr. Suess's Face of Earth IV. v. ix. 295 These depressions mark the subsidence of the foreland beneath the recent folds. They have received the name of ‘fore-troughs’. But..their two sides are of different structure, and it therefore seems advisable to call them ‘*fore-deeps’. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 35 ‘Pacific’ tectonics are those associated with contemporary orthogeosynclines, island arcs, oceanic trenches and active foredeeps.
1921L. Cockayne Veget. N.Z. ii. iv. 73 A typical, highly developed dune-area in New Zealand consists of a fairly even-topped low wall of sand the *foredune which rises from the upper strand beyond reach of an ordinary tide. 1964V. J. Chapman Coastal Veget. vi. 140 In the absence of sand couch grass, the fore-dunes are generally colonized by the Lyme grass.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 43 Each one hauing a care to his *forefellowes..discharge altogether at one vollie.
1796W. Marshall Midl. Co. I. 355 (E.D.S.) *Fore-flank..a projection of fat, upon the ribs, immediately behind the shoulder. 1856Farmer's Mag. Jan. 10 He was especially good in his back and fore⁓flank.
1589Nashe Pasquill & Marforius 12 The *fore⁓gallant of the Morrice, with the treble belles. a1658Ford, etc. Witch Edmonton ii. i, If you..know me..for a..fore-gallant in a morris, my father's stable is not unfurnish'd.
1496in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 300 Fore towis, harnys, and quhelis, and all *foregere. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 613 The peirt persing of foirgeir into deid.
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 91 b, Christe hath brought us all into the inner temple, within the vayle or *forehanginge.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Fore-hearth, a projecting bay in the front of a blast-furnace hearth, under the tymp.
1880Lib. Univ. Knowl. XIII. 76 The brine..is placed in large shallow iron pans called the ‘*foreheaters’, when it is boiled until the impurities have been deposited.
1602Carew Cornwall 76 a, Many sleights and tricks appertaine hereunto..Such are the Trip, *forehip [etc.].
1923R. E. Davies Pigs & Bacon Curing 29 The side may be made into smaller cuts by either of the following divisions:—First: *fore hock, thick streaky, thin streaky, flank, gammon, corner, long loin, back and ribs, and collar.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Fore-hook.
1892J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. 404 The pronephros or *fore-kidney persists.
1678Phillips, *Fore-knight and Main-knight, in Navigation are two short thick pieces of Wood carved with the head of a Man, fast bolted to the Beams upon the second Deck.
1891A. J. Foster Ouse 170 First comes the *fore-lighter with the name of the owner painted on the bows.
1626Bacon Sylva §204 Sounds though they spread round..yet they..go furthest in the *Fore-lines from the first local impulsion of the air.
1822Good Study Med. (1834) IV. 89 This *fore⁓march of nature should be timely checked.
1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 405 The *foremark and exemplar of a commercial nobleman.
1904Daily Chron. 15 July 3/7 Thousands of bacteria have been found in the ‘*fore’ milk, whereas the ‘middle’ milk was..germ-free. 1908Stratford-upon-Avon Herald 24 July 7/1 The rejection of foremilk and the discontinuance of wet milking. 1949New Biol. VII. 21 During any one milking time the fat-content of the milk increases very rapidly from the thin ‘fore-milk’ to the rich ‘strippings’.
1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Pref. ⁋5 The *fore page of this Worke.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 905 *Fore-piece (Saddlery) the flap attached to the fore-part of a side-saddle, to guard the rider's dress.
1837Regul. & Ord. Army 93 Repairs to Rifles, For long *Fore-pipe, brass 1s. 0d.
1870G. M. Hopkins Jrnl. 19 Dec. (1959) 201 Each [icicle] like a *forepitch of the shape of the piece of potsherd it grew on, like a tooth to its root for instance. 1871Ibid. Mar. 204 Possibly each tuft [of cloud] in forepitch or in origin is quained and a crystal. 1881― Sermons (1959) ii. viii. 196 There is..in the works of creation..the order of intention,..not only intention in understanding and intention in will but also intention or forepitch of execution, of power or activity.
1929J. B. Eggen in Calverton & Schmalhausen Sex in Civilization 594 The difference between perversion and *fore-play. 1950M. Mead Male and Female ii. iii. 73 Love-affairs are matters of the eyes, foreplay is almost completely concentrated in a glance-exchanging courtship. 1953A. C. Kinsey et al. Sex. Behav. Hum. Female II. ix. 364 Many persons..feel that the intensity of the ultimate orgasm is heightened by extended foreplay. 1961R. Liswood Doc. Speaks (1963) iv. 64 When there is adequate foreplay..intercourse is more satisfying.
1910A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Three Contributions to Theory of Sex iii. 62 In contradistinction to the end-pleasure, or pleasure of gratification of sexual activity, we can properly designate the first as *fore-pleasure. The fore-pleasure is then the same as that furnished by the infantile sexual impulse, though on a reduced scale. 1925J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers IV. 183 The increment of pleasure which is offered us in order to release yet greater pleasure arising from deeper sources in the mind is called an ‘incitement premium’ or technically, ‘fore-pleasure’. 1951C. Berg Unconscious Significance of Hair vii. 58 Lingering at the stage of ‘fore pleasure’ relations to the sexual object.
1536Lady Brian Let. in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxxi. 172 She hath neither gowne nor kirtell..nor *foresmocks.
1496in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 298 Item for iiij *fore sparris to turs to the oost.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 905 *Fore-starling, an ice⁓breaker in advance of the starling of a bridge.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 203 If one backstep be as much as *foresteps three. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. v. §27 Following the fore-steps of your famous Ancestors.
1668Glanvill in Phil. Trans. II. 770 A Rock called a *Fore⁓stone. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 756 The front of the furnace is open for about 12 inches from the lower part of the front cross⁓piece called fore-stone. 1884Fore-stone [see work-stone s.v. work n. 34].
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Fore-thwart. The seat of the bowman in a boat.
1496*Fore-tow [see foregear]
1797Sporting Mag. X. 296 The *fore-train consists of the neck, the shoulders, the breast, and the fore-legs.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Fore-winning, advanced workings.
b. With reference to time: † fore-eatage, the opportunity of pasturing one's cattle before others; † fore-fetch, a reaching forward in thought, forethought (see fetch n.1 1); † fore-goodsire = fore-grandsire; † fore-great-grandfather = great-great-grandfather; fore-rent, ‘a year's rent of a farm payable six months after entry’ (Jam.); † forestore, a store laid up beforehand; † fore-title, prescriptive title; † fore-wages (Sc.), wages paid in advance.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 12 They may have the *fore-eatage of the towne-side.
1554Bale Decl. Bonner's Art. xi. (1561) 35 He is a man of a great *fore fatche.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 19 His *foirgudschir king Malcome Canmoir.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxvii. 310 Caillets *fore-great Grandfather.
1813R. Kerr Agric. Surv. Berw. 141 The..mode of payment..termed *fore⁓rent or forehand rent.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. x. 110 To begerie from richesse *Forestore lasht out, in excreable excesse.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §5 No man hath Right or any other *fore-Title to succeede another..vnlesse [etc.].
1606Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 287 Samony of thame as sall ressaue *foirwageis. |