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

To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.

eists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.

State or quality of being frothy.

Exaggerated declamation; rant.

The art or business of a gunsmith.

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.

Contempt; scorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth. Milton. His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper. The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.

Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail. [Written also janthina.]

A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.

See Ianthina.

A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office.

The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.

Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.