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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.

Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.

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

The van; the front. [Obs.] My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak.

To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.

See Forewaste. Gascoigne.

To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.

To wish beforehand.

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.

To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] Chaucer.

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.

A preface. Furnvall.

Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic] Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. Brydges.

, 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The lowermost yard on the foremast.

Forfeiture. [Obs.]

; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.] To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. Ld. Berners.

Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture. For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. Blackstone.

One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.