Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORE-THINK', v.t.

To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind. The soul of every man / Perpetually does forethink thy fall. Shak. To contrive beforehand. Bp. Hall.

FORE-THOUGHT', n. [fo'rethaut.]

1. A thinking beforehand; anticipation; prescience; promeditation.
2. Provident care. Blackstone.

FORE-THOUGHT', v. [forethaut'. pret. of forethink.]

FORE'-THOUGHT-FUL, a.

Having forethought.

FORE-TO'KEN, n.

Prognostic; previous sign. Sidney.

FORETO'KEN, v.t.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

FORE-TO'KEN-ED, pp.

Foreshown.

FORE-TO'KEN-ING, ppr.

Presignifying.

FORE-TOLD', pp.

Predicted; told before.

FORE'-TOOTH, n. [plur. Foreteeth.]

One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.

FORE-TOP, n.

1. The hair on the forepart of the head.
2. That part of a woman's headdress that is forward, or the top of a periwig.
3. In ships, the platform erected at the head of the foremast. In this sense, the accent on the two syllables is nearly equal.

FORE-TOP'-MAST, n.

The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the foretop-gallant-mast.

FOR-EV'ER, adv.

1. At all times.
2. To eternity; through endless ages.

FORE-VOUCH'ED, pp.

Affirmed before; formerly told. Shak.

FORE-WARD, n.

The van; the front. 1 Maccabees.

FORE-WARN', v.t. [forewaurn'.]

1. To admonish beforehand. I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear. Luke xii.
2. To inform previously; to give previous notice. Milton.
3. To caution beforehand. Dryden.

FORE-WARN'ED, pp.

Admonished, cautioned or informed beforehand.

FORE-WARN'ING, n.

Previous admonition, caution or notice.

FORE-WARN'ING, ppr.

Previously admonishing or informing.

FORE-WEND', v.t.

To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.

FORE'-WIND, n.

A favorable wind. Shak.

FORE-WISH', v.t.

To wish beforehand. Knolles.

FORE'-WO'MAN, n.

A woman who is chief; the head woman. Tatler.

FORE-WORN', pp. [See Wear.]

Worn out; wasted or obliterated by time or use. Sidney.

FOR'FEIT, a. [participial adj. Used for forfeited.]

Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. And his long toils were forfeit for a look. Dryden.