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Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

In a foreboding manner.

A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby. Spenser.

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24.

One who forecast. Johnson.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.

Chosen beforehand.

Cited or quoted before or above. Arbuthnot.

t up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically…

The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

To preconceive; to imagine beforehand. [Obs.] Bacon.

To date before the true time; to antendate.

The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.

To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] Udall. Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor. J. Webster.

To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

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

To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.