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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,560 words match “FORE”

FOREWEND v.
To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.
FOREWISH v.
To wish beforehand.
FOREWIT n. 2 definitions
A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste. [Obs.] Nor that the forewits, that would draw the rest unto their liking, always like the best. B. Jonson.
FOREWITE v.
To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] Chaucer.
FOREWOMAN n.
A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Tatler. W. Besant.
FOREWORD n.
A preface. Furnvall.
FOREWORN a.
Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic] Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. Brydges.
FOREWOT n.
, 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite. [Obs.] Chaucer.
FOREYARD n.
The lowermost yard on the foremast.
AFFOREST v.
To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
AFFORESTATION n.
The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.
AFORE adv. 4 definitions
Before. [Obs.] If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.
AFORECITED a.
Named or quoted before.
AFOREGOING a.
Going before; foregoing.
AFOREHAND adv. 2 definitions
Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.
AFOREMENTIONED a.
Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.
AFORENAMED a.
Named before. Peacham.
AFORESAID a.
Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.
AFORETHOUGHT a. 2 definitions
Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.
AFORETIME adv.
In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.
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