Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORE-DATE, v.t.

To date before the true time.

FORE-DAT-ED, pp.

Dated before the true time. Milton.

FORE-DECK, n.

The forepart of a deck, or of a ship.

FORE-DE-SIGN, v.t.

To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

FORE-DE-SIGN-ED, pp.

Planned beforehand.

FORE-DE-SIGN-ING, ppr.

Planning or intending previously.

FORE-DE-TERM'INE, v.t.

To decree beforehand. Hopkins.

FORE-DE-TERM'IN-ED, pp.

Previously determined.

FORE-DE-TERM'IN-ING, ppr.

Previously determining.

FORE-DOOM', n.

Previous doom or sentence.

FORE-DOOM', v.t.

To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.

FORE-DOOR, n.

The door in the front of a house.

FORE-END', n.

The end which precedes; the anterior part. Bacon.

FORE-FATH-ER, n.

An ancestor; one who precedes another in the line of genealogy, in any degree; usually in a remote degree.

FORE'FEELING, n.

Presentiment. Blackwood.

FORE-FEND', v.t.

1. To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent approach; to forbid or prohibit. Dryden.
2. To defend; to guard; to secure. Shak. This word, like the L. arceo, is applied to the thing assailing, and to the thing assailed. To drive back or resist that which assails, is to hinder its approach, to forbid or avert, and this act defends the thing threatened or assailed.

FORE-FEND'ED, pp.

Hindered; prevented.

FORE-FEND'ING, ppr.

Hindering; preventing.

FORE-FIN'GER, n.

The finger next to the thumb; the index; called by our Saxon ancestors, the shoot-finger, from its use in archery.

FORE-FLOW, v.t.

To flow before. Dryden.

FORE-FOOT', n.

1. One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped.
2. A hand, in contempt. Shak.
3. In a ship, a piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.

FORE-FRONT', n.

The foremost part. The forefront of the battle, is the part where the contest is most warm, and where a soldier is most exposed. 2 Sam. xi. 15.

FORE-GAME, n.

A first game; first plan. Whitlock.

FORE-GO', v.t. [See Go.]

1. To forbear to possess or enjoy; voluntarily to avoid the enjoyment of good. Let us forego the pleasures of sense, to secure immortal bliss.
2. To give up; to renounce; to resign. But this word is usually applied to things not possessed or enjoyed, and which can not be resigned.
3. To lose.
4. To go before; to precede. [Obs.] Shak.

FORE-GO'ER, n.

1. An ancestor; a progenitor. [Not used.] Shak.
2. One who goes before another. Davies.
3. One who forbears to enjoy.