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To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.

ve foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

Front stick of a hearth fire.

To fail to keep an obligation. [Obs.] I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. Shak.

A pair of shears. Pope.

a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison.

is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes. He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum. Brougham.

rtion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government. She that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother. Shak. Put your discourse into some frame. Shak.

ng or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.

Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. Dryden.

in any practice; habitual; persistent. He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government. Swift.

v., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. Byron.

Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.] Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew.

Filled with emotions. The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. Lowell.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

as in the form of vapor. The heat will fume away most of the scent. Montimer. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! Young.

of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.

One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin- spun life. Milton.

To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matt. xviii. 15. To gratify the queen, and gained the court. Dryden.