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Early; timely; seasonable. "Forehanded care." Jer. Taylor.

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

To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. [Obs.]

See Sforzato.

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four- in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four- in-hand coach. -- n.

Having four hands; quadrumanous. Goldsmith.

Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.

Open-handed; liberal.

of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, -- called also fricandel. A. J. Cooley.

To withstand; to resist. [Obs.] Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.

The male of any species of goose.

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

Destitute of a garland. Shelley.

A garland. [Obs.]

A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamædrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. American germander, Teucrium Canadense. -- Germander chickweed, Veronica agrestis. -- Water germander, Teucrium Scordium. -- Wood germander, Teucrium Scorodonia.

To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.]

An ornamental branched candlestick.

for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.

A feeding on nuts or mast. [Obs.] Crabb.

Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu