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To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3.

e that; on condition that. [Obs.] One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.

One who foresees or foreknows.

To seize beforehand.

To lose utterly. [Obs.] haucer.

Same as Friesic, n.

Any strange sight. Wright.

pl. of Goose.

erican Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy. -- n. sing. & pl.

A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite.

'' (Gruyère, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkäse.

The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier.

Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. & pl.

ons of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.

A device. See Impresa. An imprese, as the Italians call it, is a device in picture with his motto or word, borne by noble or learned personages. Camden.

Ill desert. [R.] Addison.

Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.