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To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.] Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come. Genevan Test.

lien; 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, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.

e slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.

rame; to invent. Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. Locke. Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. Tennyson.

e of hammered iron or steel. There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out. London Times.

n; make or build of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

he act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.

voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. Milton.

ving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton.

he French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. Addison.

t, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death. W. Irving.

he feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

To bind with a garter. He . . . could not see to garter his hose. Shak.

an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

mal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual. Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. A. Seward.

a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms. I never could drive a hard bargain. Burke.

lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. Rowe. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. Shak.

Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.