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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,792 words match “ORE”

FOREWASTE v.
See Forewaste. Gascoigne.
FOREWEND v.
To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.
FOREWISH v.
To wish beforehand.
FOREWIT n. 2 definitions
A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste. [Obs.] Nor that the forewits, that would draw the rest unto their liking, always like the best. B. Jonson.
FOREWITE v.
To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] Chaucer.
FOREWOMAN n.
A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Tatler. W. Besant.
FOREWORD n.
A preface. Furnvall.
FOREWORN a.
Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic] Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. Brydges.
FOREWOT n.
, 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite. [Obs.] Chaucer.
FOREYARD n.
The lowermost yard on the foremast.
FORLORE p.
oForlese. [Obs.] The beasts their caves, the birds their neforlore. Fairfax.
FORSWORE n.
imp. of Forswear.
FOSSORES n.
A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also Fossoria.]
FOURSCORE a. 2 definitions
Four times twenty; eighty.
FRORE adv.
Frostily. [Obs.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.
FURORE n.
Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.
FURTHERMORE adv.
or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.
GALORE n.
Plenty; abundance; in abundance.
GEMITORES n.
A division of birds including the true pigeons.
GLAYMORE n.
A claymore. Johnson.
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