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anced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to Ant: back or Ant: behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subjec…

To bestow beforehand. [R.] King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.

Foremost part or place. Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam. xi. 15. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp.

To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert.

A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow.

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.

In the foremost place or order; among the foremost. J. Webster.

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

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Tatler. W. Besant.

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.…

Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this time forth, I never will speak word. Shak. I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquis…

The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.

Power to resist attack; strength; firmness. [Obs.] The fortitude of the place is best known to you. Shak.

A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

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

To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.