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The aspect or countenance; assurance. To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king. Shak.

To hear beforehand.

The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

See Forhend. [Obs.]

To hew or cut in front. [Obs.] Sackville.

The forward part of the hold of a ship.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

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

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton.

A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, e…

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

Foreign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.

A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.

Prejudgment. [Obs.] Spenser.

To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand. Who would the miseries of man foreknow Dryden.

That may be foreknown. Dr. H. More.

One who foreknows.

With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.