
1) Affix for mentioned 2) Ahead 3) Ahead of 4) Ahead of, to Ahab 5) Archaic prior 6) Before, before 7) Before, of yore 8) Earlier 9) Earlier than, once 10) Earlier than, to poets 11) Earlier, earlier 12) Earlier, old style 13) Earlier, quaintly 14) Erenow 15) Exclusively Anglo word 16) Exclusively Saxon word
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before
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• (prep.) Before (in all its senses). • (adv.) Before. • (prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. • (adv.) In the fore part of a vessel.
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Scottish, meaning: Earlier than the time when.
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A·fore' adverb [ Middle English
afore ,
aforn , Anglo-Saxon
onforan or
ætforan ; prefix
a- +
fore .]
1. Before. [ Obsolete] « If he have never drunk wine
afore .
Shak. »
2. (Nautical) In the fore part ...
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A·fore' preposition 1. Before (in all its senses). [ Archaic]
2. (Nautical) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as,
afore the windlass.
Afore the mast ,
among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers. ...
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before.
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