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y of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.

hing; not to let slip an opportunity. Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for when it is once past, there is no recalling it. Swift. On occasion's forelock watchful wait. Milton.

To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine. [Obs.] Spenser.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

ne of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. Abbot.

A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.

A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.

A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.

A suffix signifying something written, a writing; also, a writer; as autograph, crystograph, telegraph, photograph.

A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.

A prefix signifying half.

A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.

To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperæmia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

A prefix signifying a less quantity, or a low state or degree, of that denoted by the word with which it is joined, or position under or beneath.

An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc.