Forestal (a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.
Forestalled (imp. & p. p.) of Forestall
Forestalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forestall
Forestall (v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
Forestall (v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.
Forestall (v. t.) To deprive; -- with of.
Forestall (v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
Forestaller (n.) One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.
Forestay (n.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
Forester (n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
Forester (n.) An inhabitant of a forest.
Forester (n.) A forest tree.
Forester (n.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.
Forestick (n.) Front stick of a hearth fire.
Forestry (n.) The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
Foreswart (a.) Alt. of Foreswart
Foreswart (a.) See Forswat.
Foretaste (n.) A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
Foretaste (v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
Foretaste (v. t.) To taste before another.
Foretaster (n.) One who tastes beforehand, or before another.
Foreteach (v. t.) To teach beforehand.
Foretold (imp. & p. p.) of Foretell
Foretelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foretell
Foretell (v. t.) To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
Foretell (v. i.) To utter predictions.
Foreteller (n.) One who predicts.
Forethink (v. t.) To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
Forethink (v. t.) To contrive (something) beforehend.
Forethink (v. i.) To contrive beforehand.
Forethought (a.) Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
Forethought (n.) A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.
Forethoughtful (a.) Having forethought.
Foretime (n.) The past; the time before the present.
Foretoken (n.) Prognostic; previous omen.
Foretokened (imp. & p. p.) of Foretoken
Foretokening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foretoken
Foretoken (v. t.) To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
Fore teeth (pl. ) of Fore tooth
Fore tooth () One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.
Foretop (n.) The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.
Foretop (n.) That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.
Foretop (n.) The platform at the head of the foremast.
Fore-topgallant (a.) Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.
Fore-topmast (n.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.
Fore-topsail (n.) See Sail.
Forever (adv.) Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
Forever (adv.) At all times; always.
Forevouched (a.) Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance.
Foreward (n.) The van; the front.
Forewarned (imp. & p. p.) of Forewarn
Forewarning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forewarn
Forewarn (v. t.) To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
Forewaste (v. t.) See Forewaste.
Forewend (v. t.) To go before.
Forewish (v. t.) To wish beforehand.
Forewit (n.) A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
Forewit (n.) Foresight; prudence.
Forewot (pres. indic. sing., 1st & 3d pers.) of Forewite
Forewost (2d person) of Forewite
Forewiten (pl.) of Forewite
Forewiste (imp. sing.) of Forewite
Forewisten (pl.) of Forewite
Forewiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forewite
Forewite (v. t.) To foreknow.
Forewomen (pl. ) of Forewoman
Forewoman (n.) A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
Foreword (n.) A preface.
Foreworn (a.) Worn out; wasted; used up.
Forewot () pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite.
Foreyard (n.) The lowermost yard on the foremast.
Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture.
Forfeit (n.) Injury; wrong; mischief.
Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
Forfeit (n.) Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
Forfeit (n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
Forfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Forfeit
Forfeiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forfeit
Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
Forfeit (v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
Forfeit (v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation.
Forfeit (p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
Fourfeitable (a.) Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
Forfeiter (n.) One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
Forfeiture (n.) The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.
Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
Forfend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
Forfered (p. p. & a.) Excessively alarmed; in great fear.
Forfete (v. i.) To incur a penalty; to transgress.
Forfex (n.) A pair of shears.
Forficate (a.) Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.
Forficula (n.) A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.
Forgather (v. i.) To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
Forgave () imp. of Forgive.
Forge (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
Forge (n.) The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
Forge (n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
Forged (imp. & p. p.) of Forge
Forging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forge