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the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

To conjecture. [Obs.]

The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o

All that part of a horse which is before the rider. Johnson.

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

The aspect or countenance; assurance. To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king. Shak.

To hear beforehand.

The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

See Forhend. [Obs.]

To hew or cut in front. [Obs.] Sackville.

The forward part of the hold of a ship.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton.

A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, e…

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

Foreign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.

A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.