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Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.

Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

One who predicts.

The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge. Milton.

Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future. Bartram.

Foresighted. [Obs.]

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt. Shak.

See Forslack.

The sleeve below the elbow.

To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.

See Forspeak.

A prediction; also, a preface. [Obs.] Camden. Huloet.

A preface. [Obs.] Sherwood.

See Forspent.

One who rides before; a harbinger. [Obs.] Shak.