Fore-night noun The evening between twilight and bedtime. [ Scot.]

Foreknow transitive verb [ imperfect Foreknew ; past participle Foreknown ; present participle & verbal noun Foreknowing .] To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

Who would the miseries of man foreknow ?

Dryden.

Foreknowable adjective That may be foreknown. Dr. H. More.

Foreknower noun One who foreknows.

Foreknowingly adverb With foreknowledge.

He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life.

Jer. Taylor.

Foreknowledge noun Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

If I foreknew,
Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.

Milton.

Forel noun [ Middle English forel case, sheath, Old French forel , fourel , French fourreau , Late Latin forellus , from Old French forre , fuerre , sheath, case, of German origin; confer Old High German fuotar , akin to Goth. fōdr ; probably not the same word as English fodder food. Confer Fur , Fodder food.] A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill .

Forel transitive verb To bind with a forel. [ R.] Fuller.

Foreland noun
1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow.

3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. Knight.

Forelay transitive verb
1. To lay down beforehand.

These grounds being forelaid and understood.

Mede.

2. To waylay. See Forlay . [ Obsolete]

Foreleader noun One who leads others by his example; a guide.

Forelend transitive verb See Forlend . [ Obsolete]

As if that life to losse they had forelent .

Spenser.

Forelet transitive verb See Forlet . [ Obsolete] Holland.

Forelie intransitive verb To lie in front of. [ Obsolete]

Which forelay
Athwart her snowy breast.

Spenser.

Forelift transitive verb To lift up in front. [ Obsolete]

Forelock noun
1. The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

2. (Mech.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.

Forelock bolt , a bolt retained by a key, gib, or cotter passing through a slot. -- Forelock hook (Rope Making) , a winch or whirl by which a bunch of three yarns is twisted into a standard. Knight. -- To take time, or occasion , by the forelock , to make prompt use of anything; not to let slip an opportunity.

Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock ; for when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Swift.

On occasion's forelock watchful wait.

Milton.

Forelook intransitive verb To look beforehand or forward. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Foreman noun ; plural Foremen The first or chief man ; as: (a) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker. (b) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

Foremast noun (Nautical) The mast nearest the bow.

Foremast hand or man (Nautical) , a common sailor; also, a man stationed to attend to the gear of the foremast.

Foremeant adjective Intended beforehand; premeditated. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Forementioned adjective Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned. Addison.

Foremilk noun (Physiol.) The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

Foremost adjective [ Middle English formest first, Anglo-Saxon formest , fyrmest , superl. of forma first, which is a superl. from fore fore; confer Goth. frumist , fruma , first. See Fore , adverb , and confer First , Former , Frame , transitive verb , Prime , adjective ] First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.

THat struck the foremost man of all this world.

Shak.

Foremostly adverb In the foremost place or order; among the foremost. J. Webster.

Foremother noun A female ancestor.

Forename noun A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name. Selden.

Forename transitive verb To name or mention before. Shak.

Forenamed adjective Named before; aforenamed.

Forenenst preposition [ See Fore , and Anent .] Over against; opposite to. [ Now dialectic]

The land forenenst the Greekish shore.

Fairfax.

Forenoon noun The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.

Forenotice noun Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. [ R.] Rymer.

Forensal adjective Forensic. [ R.]

Forensic adjective [ Latin forensis , from forum a public place, market place. See Forum .] Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.

Forensic medicine , medical jurisprudence; medicine in its relations to law.

Forensic noun (Amer. Colleges) An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.

Forensical adjective Forensic. Berkley.

Foreordain transitive verb To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.

Foreordinate transitive verb To foreordain.

Foreordination noun Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

Forepast adjective Bygone. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Forepossessed adjective
1. Holding or held formerly in possession. [ Obsolete]

2. Preoccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged. [ Obsolete]

Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice.

Bp. Sanderson.

Foreprize transitive verb To prize or rate beforehand. [ Obsolete] Hooker.

Forepromised adjective Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.

Forequoted adjective Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.

Foreran imperfect of Forerun .

Forerank noun The first rank; the front.

Forereach transitive verb (Nautical) To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

Forereach intransitive verb (Nautical) To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays. R. H. Dana, Jr.

Foreread transitive verb To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Forerecited adjective Named or recited before. "The forerecited practices." Shak.