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

To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton.

A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.

One who tastes beforehand, or before another.

To teach beforehand. [Obs.]

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.

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

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

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

To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.

To wish beforehand.

to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited. [They] had forfeited their property by their crimes. Burke. Undone and forfeited to cares forever! Shak.

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

though honorable, were not military. Abbott. -- Free States, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. -- Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. -- Free thought, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. -- F…

The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.

rial of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients. Ure.

pposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before Ay, on the front. Shak.

future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.

Event to come; a future event. All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South.