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fore-part, forepart|ˈfɔəpɑːt|
[f. fore- prefix + part.]
1. The foremost, first, or most advanced part; the front.
c1400Burgh Lawis c. 105 Þai sall leilly lyne..baith foir part and back part of þe land. 1435Misyn Fire of Love i. xvii. 38 All þe inar forpartis of my saule with swetnes of heuenly myrth ar fulfild. 1483Cath. Angl. 138/2 Þe For⁓parte of y⊇ hede, cinciput. 1548Hall Chron., Rich. III (an. 3) 49 b, They of the Castell vexed their enemies on the foreparte. c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. 324 Betwixt his neck, and foreparts. 1714S. Sewall Diary 12 Nov. (1882) III 26 The Snow and Rain..beat on the fore-part of the Calash. 1836Random Recoll. Ho. Lords xvi. 383 His dark hair..stands on end on the fore part of his head.
b. esp. The bow or prow of a vessel. ? Obs.
1526Tindale Acts xxvii 41 And the foore parte stucke fast. 1555Eden Decades 160 Turnynge the stemmes or forpartes of their shyppes ageynst the streame. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 74 The head or fore-part is not altogether so high as the Stern.
†2. An ornamental covering for the breast worn by women; a stomacher. Obs.
1600Q. Eliz. Wardr. in Nichols Progresses (1823) III. 507 Item, one foreparte of clothe of sylver. 1607Webster Northw. Hoe i. iii. Wks. (Rtldg.) 256/1, I confess I took up a petticoat and a raised forepart for her. 1640Shirley Constant Maid iv. iii, They were a midwife's Fore part.
3. The earlier part.
1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. §7 All the fore-part of the day. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 131 He lives twice that bestowes the fore-part of his life well. 1722Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. v. 369 In the fore part of the year 1659. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. l. 217 In the Fore⁓part of the seventeenth Century. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xv, In some long-forgotten fore part of the day. |