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

Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought. This seems an unseasonable foresight. Milton. A random expense, without plan or foresight. Burke.

A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care. A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom. I. Taylor.

ited. [They] had forfeited their property by their crimes. Burke. Undone and forfeited to cares forever! Shak.

Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.

embrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope.

[Obs.] Wharton. -- Foster mother, a woman who takes a mother's place in the nurture and care of a child; a nurse. -- Foster nurse, a nurse; a nourisher. [R.] Shak. -- Foster parent, a foster mother or foster father. -- Foster son, a male foster child.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

Nourishing. [Obs.] T. Carew (1633).

Not perplexed; having a mind free from care. Bacon.

[friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray. cf. F. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.

To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare. Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit. Dryden.

A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] Carew.

Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.] Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew.

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke.

make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.] I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. Locke.

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.

Protected by turrets. [Obs.] R. Carew.

close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.