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Ready; directly forward; going before. [Obs.] "A foreright wind." Chapman.

To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).

A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.

Mentioned before; aforesaid.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

To foretell. [Obs.] Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. Fairfax.

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

case 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 shadow or typi Dryden.

See Foreshow.

The fore part of a ship. [Obs.]

Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.

Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

One who predicts.

The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge. Milton.