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单词 foreside
释义 foreside|ˈfɔəsaɪd|
Also 5–7 for-.
[f. fore- prefix + side. Cf. Du. voorzijde, Ger. vorseite.]
1. The fore part; the front; also, the upper side (of anything). Now rare exc. techn.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 161 Þese .vij. ribbis..in þe for⁓side of a man..have no fastnynge to no boon.1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xxvii. 82 Sharp yrons were dressed to the foresyde of the same engyn.1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke vii. 85 b, The tables..letted hir to..cast hir self down prostrate on the foresyde, at the fete of Jesus.1569Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 311 On lytlye pattlett sett wth pearll on the forsyd.1642Relat. Action bef. Cyrencester 8 The Colonell perceiving the garden wall..too high to be entred on the foreside.1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy II. 103 The picture..turns upon a frame, and shews you both the fore-side of those combatants, and their backsides too.1738[G. Smith] Curious Relat. I. iv. 470 They have another Skin..which covers their Back, and a square one to cover their Foreside.1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. xxix, Over⁓turning it upside-down, and fore-side back.1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 9 Making the backs of the escape wheel teeth radial and the foresides curved.
fig.1596Spenser F.Q. v. iii. 39 When these counterfeits were thus uncased Out of the foreside of their forgerie..All gan to jest and gibe full merilie.a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 343 There [at the bottom] lies abundance of self-love, and self-interest, even when there is a good countenance and fore-side.1685Renwick Serm., etc. xiii. (1776) 159 Hills and Vallies..are all written over, backside and fore⁓side with legible characters of the knowledge of God.
2. The front side or edge.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 164 Raiser, is a Board set on edge under the Fore-side of a step.
3. attrib.
a1643W. Cartwright Lady-Errant v. i, This foreside blow Cuts off thrice three, this back-blow thrice three more.
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