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To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24.

One who forecast. Johnson.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. Owen. Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be. J. C. Shairp.

That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

. Milton. Before the mast (Naut.), as a common sailor, -- because the sailors live in the forecastle, forward of the foremast. -- Before the wind (Naut.), in the direction of the wind and by its impulse; having the wind aft.

A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

ematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity. A cunning man did calculate my birth. Shak.

Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high d…

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.

A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care. A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom. I. Taylor.

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist. Totten. Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

warks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]

rders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.

Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

ith eaves on both sides. Gwilt. -- Span shackle (Naut.), a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

in a frigate, the deck which is continued in a straight line from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, and on which spare spars are usually placed. See under Deck. -- Spar torpedo (Naut.), a torpedo carried on the end of a spar usually projecting from the bow of a vessel, and intended to explode upon contact with an en…