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In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. Rich and much beforehand. Bacon.

n action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

Lifetime; mortal existence. [Obs.] Claudius, thou Wast follower of his fortunes in his being. Webster (1654).

To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame. Milton.

Forthwith; speedily; quickly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

aped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

m." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. Shak.

he condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise. The constant effort of every man to better himself. Macaulay.

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight.

Bringing forth two at a birth.

The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. "At her next birth." Milton.

Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n.

ary lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy,…

To put forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. Dryden.

To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. And far and wide the icy summit blazed. Wordsworth.

affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. For me the balm shall bleed. Pope.

Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.