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oung of any animal of the Horse family (Equidæ); a colt; a filly. Foal teeth (Zoöl.), the first set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.

foot of a wall, broader than the courses above. -- To pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright. -- Footing beam, the tie beam of a roof.

Cf. Fore, First, Foremost, Forth, Pro-.]

In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

A first game; first plan. [Obs.] Whitlock.

The first or chief man; as:

First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak.

A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name. Selden.

The first rank; the front.

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

First. [Obs.] "Adam our forme father." Chaucer.

Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned. A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper. Pope.

the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the first member of the fatty acids in the paraffin series, and is homologous with acetic acid.

whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate…

Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. "The foul with Sycorax." Shak. Who first seduced them to that foul revolt Milton.

To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.