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Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.

Having forethought. [R.]

The past; the time before the present. "A very dim foretime." J. C. Shairp.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

To devour. [Obs.] The sow frete the child right in the cradle. Chaucer.

Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- Fret"ful-ly, adv. -- Fret"ful-ness, n.

The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.

Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

One who, or that which, frets.

Adorned with fretwork.

A strait, or arm of the sea.

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

A turret; a watchtower. [Obs.] He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls. Ld. Berners.

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

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. Weale.

Great. [Obs.] Chaucer.