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of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in rec…

To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.] As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman.

Defense in front. [Obs.]

To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend. God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history. Landor. It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty. I. Taylor.

The finger next to the thumb; the index.

To flow before. [Obs.]

One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.

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.

A first game; first plan. [Obs.] Whitlock.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

Same as Forgather.

A premium paid by

An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.

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

One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.

the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

To conjecture. [Obs.]

The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o

All that part of a horse which is before the rider. Johnson.

Early; timely; seasonable. "Forehanded care." Jer. Taylor.