Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORE-GO'ING, ppr.

1. Forbearing to have, possess or enjoy.
2. adj. Preceding; going before, in time or place; antecedent; as, a foregoing period of time; a foregoing clause in a writing.

FORE-GONE, pp. [foregawn'.]

1. Forborne to be possessed or enjoyed. Spenser.
2. Gone before; past. [Obs.] Shak.

FORE-GROUND, n.

The part of the field or expanse of a picture which seems to lie before the figures. Dryden. Johnson.

FORE-GUESS', v.t.

To conjecture. [Bad.] Sherwood.

FORE-HAND, a.

Done sooner than is regular. And so extenuate the forehand sin. Shak.

FORE-HAND, n.

1. The part of a horse which is before the rider.
2. The chief part. Shak.

FORE-HAND-ED, a.

1. Early; timely; seasonable; as, a forehanded care. Taylor.
2. In America, in good circumstances as to property; free from debt and possessed of property; as, a forehanded farmer.
3. Formed in the foreparts. A substantial true-bred beast, bravely forehanded. Dryden.

FORE-HEAD, n. [for'hed, or rather for'ed.]

1. The part of the face which extends from the hair on the top of the head to the eyes.
2. Impudence; confidence; assurance; audaciousness. Bp. Hall. Swift.

FORE'HEAD-BALD, a.

Bald above the forehead. Levit. xiii. 41.

FORE-HEAR, v.i.

To be informed before.

FORE-HEND', v.t.

To seize. [Not in use.] Spenser.

FORE-HEW', v.t.

To hew or cut in front. Sackville.

FORE-HEW'ED, pp.

Cut in front.

FORE-HEW'ING, ppr.

Hewing in front.

FORE-HOLD-ING, n.

Predictions; ominous forebodings; superstitious prognostications. [Not used.] L'Estrange.

FORE-HOOK, n.

In ships, a breast-hook, a piece of timber placed across the stem to unite the bows and strengthen the forepart of the ship. Mar. Dict.

FORE-HORSE, n.

The horse in a team which goes foremost.

FOR-EIGN, a. [for'an; Fr. forain; Norm. forein; Sp. foraneo; from the root of Sax. faran, to go or depart; L. foris, foras, Fr. hors, abroad.]

1. Belonging to another nation or country; alien; not of the country in which one resides; extraneous. We call every country foreign, which is not within the jurisdiction of our own government- In this sense, Scotland before the union, was foreign to England, and Canada is now foreign to the United States. More generally, foreign is applied to countries more remote than an adjacent territory; as, a foreign market; a foreign prince. In the United States, all transatlantic countries are foreign.
2. Produced in a distant country or jurisdiction; coming from another country; as, foreign goods; goods of foreign manufacture; a foreign minister.
3. Remote; not belonging; not connected; with to or from. You dissemble; the sentiments you express are foreign to your heart. This design is foreign from my thoughts. [The use of from is preferable and best authorized.]
4. Impertinent; not pertaining; not to the purpose. The observation is foreign from the subject under consideration.
5. Excluded; not admitted; held at a distance. Shak.
6. Extraneous; adventitious; not native or natural.
7. In law, a foreign attachment is an attachment of the goods of a foreigner within a city or liberty, for the satisfaction of debt due from the foreigner to a citizen; or an attachment of the money or goods of a debtor, in the hands of another person. A foreign bill of exchange, is a bill drawn by a person in one country, on his correspondent or agent in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is drawn by one person on another in the same jurisdiction or country. Foreign plea, a plea or objection to a judge as incompetent to try the question, on the ground that it is not within his jurisdiction. Encyc.

FOR'EIGN-BUILT, a.

Built in a foreign country. Jefferson

FOR'EIGN-ER, n. [for'aner.]

A person born in a foreign country, or without the country or jurisdiction of which one speaks. A Spaniard is a foreigner in France and England All men not born in the United States are to them foreigners, and they are aliens till naturalized. A naturalized person is a citizen; but we still call him a foreigner by birth.

FOR'EIGN-NESS, n. [for'anness.]

Remoteness; want of relation; as, the foreignness of a subject from the main business.

FORE-IM-AG'INE, v.t.

To conceive or fancy before proof, or beforehand.

FORE-IM-AG'IN-ED, pp.

Conceived before.

FORE-IM-AG'IN-ING, ppr.

Imagining beforehand.

FORE-JUDGE', v.t. [forejuj'.]

1. To prejudge; to judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof.
2. In law, to expel from a court, for mal-practice or non-appearance. When an attorney is sued, and called to appear in court, if he declines, he is forejudged, and his name struck from the rolls.