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foreright rarely with advbl. gen. -s forerights, adv., prep., a. and n.|ˌfɔəˈraɪt|
[f. fore adv. + right adv. and adj.]
†A. adv. Directly forward, in or towards the front, straight ahead. fore-right against, directly opposite. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxiv. (1495) 819 A yonge Cowe is..compellyd to folowe euen and foreryght the steppes and fores of oxen. 1548Elyot, Aduersus..fore ryght againste. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xix. 30 The litell toune yt ye see yonder foreright ayenst you. 1608R. Armin Nest Ninn. (1842) 1 To looke fore-right I can not, because judgment out-lookes mee. 1659J. Leak Water-wks. 30 The difference is that, this here is seen fore-right, and that other upon one side. 1663Stapylton Slighted Maid 3 Fil. Hey boy! how sits the wind? Gios. Fore⁓right, and a brisk Gale. 1715–20Pope Iliad xxii. 189 No less fore-right the rapid chace they held. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xl, Surveying it transversely..then foreright,—then this way, and then that. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xii. (1813) 166 Let them [shoots] not advance far foreright.
B. prep.
†1. Straight along. Obs.—1
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. v. vii. 156 Sailing (not athwart the breadth..but) almost foreright the length of the lake.
2. Opposite, over against. dial.
1858in Hughes Scouring White Horse 140 Vp, vorights the Castle round They did zet I on the ground.
C. adj.
†1.
a. Of a path, road, etc.: Directly in front of one, straight forward. Obs.
1624Massinger Parl. Love iii. iii. Plays (1868) 179/2 You did but point me out a fore-right way To lead to certain happiness. a1669Somner Roman Ports & Forts 50 A direct and foreright continued current and passage. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 145 A straight or Foreright Ascent. 1748Richardson Clarissa Wks. (1883) VII. 315 You have only had the foreright path you were in overwhelmed.
†b. Of a wind: Straight on the line of one's course, favourable. Obs.
1605Chapman, etc. Eastw. Hoe iii. ii, Ther's a foreright winde continuall wafts vs till we come at Virginia. 1615― Odyss. iii. 244 Nor ever left the wind his foreright force. 1632Quarles Div. Fancies ii. xciv. (1660) 95 His sayle Being fill'd and prosper'd with a fore-right Gale.
2. Of a branch, etc.: Shooting straight out.
1741Compl. Fam. Piece ii. iii. 388 Take off all fore-right or trailing Branches. 1802W. Forsyth Fruit Trees ii. (1824) 34 They will frequently throw out small dugs, or foreright shoots. 1882Gard. Chron. XVII. 675 Removing..all foreright shoots.
3. dial. Of persons:
a. Going straight ahead without regard of consequences, headstrong.
b. Honest, straightforward; also, plain-spoken, blunt.
a.1736Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.) s.v. (given as a ‘Hants’ word). 1853Cooper Sussex Gloss. (ed. 2).
b.1810Devon & Cornw. Voc. in Monthly Mag. June 436 ‘A foreright man’, that is, a plain honest man. 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve II. 213 Be foreright in all you do.
D. n. [The adj. used absol.]
†a. Something straightforward (obs.).
b. A foreright shoot; cf. C. 2.
c. dial. (see quot.).
a.1754Richardson Grandison VII. xiii. 75 We women sometimes choose to come at a point by the round-abouts, rather than by the fore-rights.
b.1882Jrnl. Horticulture 6 Apr. 288 The forerights unless strong being treated similarly.
c.1797R. Polwhele Old Eng. Gentl. 54 Then..Cut from the buttock a convenient slice, And..Salute the fore⁓right with as keen a knife. Note, ‘Foreright’ is the coarsest sort of wheaten bread, made of the meal, with all the bran. |