Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORE-AP-POINT'MENT, n.

Previous appointment; preordination. Sherwood.

FORE-ARM, n.

In anatomy, that part of the arm between the elbow and the wrist.

FORE-ARM, v.t.

To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.

FORE-BE-LIEF', n.

Previous belief.

FORE-BODE, v.t.

1. To foretell; to prognosticate.
2. To foreknow; to be prescient of; to feel a secret sense of something future; as, my heart forebodes a sad reverse.

FORE-BODE-MENT, n.

A presaging; presagement.

FORE-BOD-ER, n.

1. One who forebodes; a prognosticator; a soothsayer. L'Estrange.
2. A foreknower.

FORE-BOD-ING, n.

Prognostication.

FORE-BOD-ING, ppr.

Prognosticating; foretelling; foreknowing.

FORE-BOD'ING-LY, adv.

In a prognosticating manner.

FORE-BRACE, n.

A rope applied to the fore yard-arm to change the position of the foresail. Mar. Dict.

FORE-BY', prep. [fore and by.]

Near; hard by; fast by. [Obs.] Spenser.

FORE-CAST, n.

Previous contrivance; foresight, or the antecedent determination proceeding from it; as, a man of little forecast.

FORE-CAST, v.i.

To form a scheme previously; to contrive beforehand. Forecasting how his foe he might annoy. Spenser.

FORE-CAST, v.t.

1. To foresee; to provide against. It is wisdom to forecast consequences. L'Estrange.
2. To scheme; to plan before execution. He shall forecast his devices against the strong holds. Dan. xi.
3. To adjust, contrive or appoint beforehand. The time so well forecast. Dryden.

FORE-CAST-ER, n.

One who foresees or contrives beforehand.

FORE-CAST-ING, ppr.

Contriving previously.

FORE-CAS-TLE, a.

A short deck in the forepart of a ship above the upper deck, usually terminated in ships of war, with a breast-work; the foremost part forming the top of the beak-head, and the hind part reaching to the after part of the fore chains. Mar. Dict.

FORE-CHOS-EN, a. [forecho'zn.]

Preelected; chosen beforehand.

FORE-CIT-ED, a.

Cited or quoted before or above. Arbuthnot.

FORE-CLOSE, v.t. [s as z.]

To shut up; to preclude; to stop; to prevent. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager, in law, is to cut him off from his equity of redemption, or the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, by a judgment of court. Blackstone. [To foreclose a mortgage, is not technically correct, but is often used.]

FORE-CLOS-ED, pp.

Prevented; precluded; cut off from the right of redemption.

FORE-CLOS-ING, ppr.

Precluding; cutting off from the right of redemption.

FORE-CLOS-URE, n. [s as z.]

1. Prevention.
2. The act of foreclosing, or depriving a mortgager of the right of redeeming a mortgaged estate. Blackstone.

FORE-CON-CEIVE, v.t.

To preconceive. Bacon.