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Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. Sir W. Scott.

Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner. Prior.

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.] The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. Shak.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.

A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.]

Holding or held formerly in possession. [Obs.]

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C.

Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. [R.] Shak.

Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.

In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

re passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and now for various other purposes. In the illustration, a leads to the upper end of a steam engine cylinder, and b to the lower end; c is the steam pipe, and d the exhaust pipe.…

A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.

A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies. Fox and geese. (a) A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the…

s Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia.

Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. -- Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. South. -- Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways." W. Black. --…

reedom of the city, the possession of the rights and privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.

A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]

The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them. [Formerly spelled frigat and friggot.]