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One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

Front stick of a hearth fire.

The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

See Forswat.

A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.

One who tastes beforehand, or before another.

To teach beforehand. [Obs.]

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

One who predicts. Boyle.

To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.

Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.

Having forethought. [R.]

The past; the time before the present. "A very dim foretime." J. C. Shairp.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.

Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. [R.] Shak.

The van; the front. [Obs.] My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak.

To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.

See Forewaste. Gascoigne.