Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORE, adv.

In the part that precedes or goes first. In seamen's language, fore and aft signifies the whole length of the ship, or from end to end, from stem to stem. Mar. Dict. Fore, in composition, denotes, for the most part, priority of time; sometimes, advance in place. [For the etymologies of the compounds of fore, see the principal word.]