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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,560 words match “FORE”

BEFORE prep. 11 definitions
In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.
BEFOREHAND adv. 3 definitions
ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.
BEFORETIME adv.
Formerly; aforetime. [They] dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
COAFFOREST v.
To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
DEFOREST v.
To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.
DISAFFOREST v.
To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.
DISFOREST v. 2 definitions
To disafforest. Fuller.
DISFORESTATION n.
The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.
ENFOREST v.
To turn into a forest.
HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST adv.
With the head foremost.
HEREINBEFORE adv.
In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).
HERETOFORE adv.
Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past. Shak.
LIVE-FOREVER n.
A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
PINAFORE n.
An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.
REAFFOREST v.
To convert again into the forest, as a region of country.
REAFFORESTATION n.
The act or process of converting again into a forest.
REFOREST v.
To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.
REFORESTIZATION n.
The act or process of reforestizing.
REFORESTIZE v.
To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
STERNFOREMOST adv.
nce; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
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