Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 51
Forelift (v. t.) To lift up in front.
Forelock (n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
Forelock (n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.
Forelook (v. i.) To look beforehand or forward.
Foremen (n. pl. ) of Foreman.
Foreman (n.) The first or chief man.
Foreman (n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
Foreman (n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
Foremast (n.) The mast nearest the bow.
Foremeant (a.) Intended beforehand; premeditated.
Forementioned (a.) Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned.
Foremilk (n.) The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
Foremost (a.) First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
Foremostly (adv.) In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
Foremother (n.) A female ancestor.
Forename (n.) A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.
Forename (v. t.) To name or mention before.
Forenamed (a.) Named before; aforenamed.
Forenenst (prep.) Over against; opposite to.
Fore-night (n.) The evening between twilight and bedtime.
Forenoon (n.) The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.
Forenotice (n.) Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
Forensal (a.) Forensic.
Forensic (a.) Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.
Forensic (n.) An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.
Forensical (a.) Forensic.
Foreordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
Foreordinate (v. t.) To foreordain.
Foreordination (n.) Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
Fore part (n.) Alt. of Forepart.
Forepart (n.) The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.
Forepast (a.) Bygone.
Forepossessed (a.) Holding or held formerly in possession.
Forepossessed (a.) Preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged.
Foreprize (v. t.) To prize or rate beforehand.
Forepromised (a.) Promised beforehand; preengaged.
Forequoted (a.) Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.
Foreran () imp. of Forerun.
Forerank (n.) The first rank; the front.
Forereach (v. t.) To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
Forereach (v. i.) To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
Foreread (v. t.) To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.
Forerecited (a.) Named or recited before.
Foreremembered (a.) Called to mind previously.
Foreright (a.) Ready; directly forward; going before.
Foreright (adv.) Right forward; onward.
Forerun (v. t.) To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
Forerun (v. t.) To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
Forerunner (n.) [C] 先行者，先驅者；先導；前驅；先人，祖先 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.
Forerunner (n.) A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.]
Forerunner (n.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
Forerunner (n.) A person who goes before or announces the coming of another [syn: {precursor}, {forerunner}].
Forerunner (n.) Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone [syn: {harbinger}, {forerunner}, {predecessor}, {herald}, {precursor}].
Forerunner (n.) Anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" [syn: {antecedent}, {forerunner}].
Forerunner (n.) [ C ] 先驅，先行者；預兆，前兆 Something or someone that acts as an early and less advanced model for what will appear in the future, or a warning or sign of what is to follow.
// Germany's Green party was said to be the forerunner of environmental parties throughout Europe.
// The drop in share prices in March was a forerunner of the financial crash that followed in June.
Foresaid (a.) Mentioned before; aforesaid.
Foresail (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
Foresail (n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
Foresail (n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.
Foresay (v. t.) To foretell.
Foresee (v. t.) To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
Foresee (v. t.) To provide.
Foresee (v. i.) To have or exercise foresight.
Foreseen (p. p.) Provided; in case that; on condition that.
Foreseer (n.) One who foresees or foreknows.
Foreseize (v. t.) To seize beforehand.
Foreshadow (v. t.) 成為前兆，暗示，預示 To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
Foreshadow (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}].
Foreshew (v. t.) See Foreshow.
Foreship (n.) The fore part of a ship.
Foreshorten (v. t.) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
Foreshorten (v. t.) Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
Foreshortening (n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
Foreshot (n.) In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
Foreshow (v. t.) To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
Foreshower (n.) One who predicts.
Foreside (n.) The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.
Foreside (n.) The outside or external covering.
Foresight (n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Foresight (n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
Foresight (n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
Foresight (n.) [ U ] 深謀遠慮；先見之明；遠見卓識 The ability to judge correctly what is going to happen in the future and plan your actions based on this knowledge.
// She'd had the foresight to sell her apartment just before the housing market collapsed.
Foresighted (a.) Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.
Foresightful (a.) Foresighted.
Foresignify (v. t.) To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.
Foreskin (n.) The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.
Foreskirt (n.) The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train.
Foreslack (v. t.) See Forslack.
Foresleeve (n.) The sleeve below the elbow.
Foreslow (v. t.) To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t.
Foreslow (v. i.) To loiter. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. i.
Forespeak (v. t.) See Forspeak.
Forespeak (v. t.) To foretell; to predict.
Forespeaking (n.) A prediction; also, a preface.
Forespeech (n.) A preface.
Forespent (a.) Already spent; gone by; past.
Forespent (a.) See Forspent.
Forespurrer (n.) One who rides before; a harbinger.
Forest (n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
Forest (n.) (Eng. Law) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. -- Burrill.
Forest (a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
Forest fly. (Zool.) (a) One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the family Tabanid[ae], which attack both men and beasts. See Horse fly.
Forest fly. (Zool.) (b) A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick.
Forest glade, A grassy space in a forest. -- Thomson.
Forest laws, Laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests.
Forest tree, A tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree.
Forest (v. t.) To cover with trees or wood.
Forest (n.) The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area [syn: forest, wood, woods].
Forest (n.) Land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest, woodland, timberland, timber].
Forest (v.) Establish a forest on previously unforested land; "afforest the mountains" [syn: afforest, forest].
Forest, () Heb. ya'ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ephraim (2 Sam. 18:6, 8; Josh. 17:15, 18), which is probably the same as the wood of Ephratah (Ps. 132:6), some part of the great forest of Gilead. It was in this forest that Absalom was slain by Joab. David withdrew to the forest of Hareth in the mountains of Judah to avoid the fury of Saul (1 Sam. 22:5). We read also of the forest of Bethel (2 Kings 2:23, 24), and of that which the Israelites passed in their pursuit of the Philistines (1 Sam. 14:25), and of the forest of the cedars of Lebanon (1 Kings 4:33; 2 Kings 19:23; Hos. 14:5, 6).
"The house of the forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 7:2; 10:17; 2 Chr. 9:16) was probably Solomon's armoury, and was so called because the wood of its many pillars came from Lebanon, and they had the appearance of a forest. (See BAALBEC.)
Heb. horesh, denoting a thicket of trees, underwood, jungle, bushes, or trees entangled, and therefore affording a safe hiding-place. place. This word is rendered "forest" only in 2 Chr. 27:4. It is also rendered "wood", the "wood" in the "wilderness of Ziph," in which david concealed himself (1 Sam. 23:15), which lay south-east of Hebron. In Isa. 17:19 this word is in Authorized Version rendered incorrectly "bough."
Heb. pardes, meaning an enclosed garden or plantation. Asaph is (Neh. 2:8) called the "keeper of the king's forest." The same Hebrew word is used Eccl. 2:5, where it is rendered in the plural "orchards" (R.V., "parks"), and Cant. 4: 13, rendered "orchard" (R.V. marg., "a paradise").
"The forest of the vintage" (Zech. 11:2, "inaccessible forest," or R.V. "strong forest") is probably a figurative allusion to Jerusalem, or the verse may simply point to the devastation of the region referred to.
The forest is an image of unfruitfulness as contrasted with a cultivated field (Isa. 29:17; 32:15; Jer. 26:18; Hos. 2:12). Isaiah (10:19, 33, 34) likens the Assyrian host under Sennacherib (q.v.) to the trees of some huge forest, to be suddenly cut down by an unseen stroke.
FOREST. () By the English law, a forest is a circuit of ground properly under the king's protection, for the peaceable living and abiding of beasts of hunting and the chase, and distinguished not only by having bounds and privileges, but also by having courts and offices. 12 do. 22. The signification of forest in the United States is the popular one of an extensive piece of woodland. Vide Purlieu.
Forest -- U.S. County in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 4946
Housing Units (2000): 8701
Land area (2000): 428.116792 sq. miles (1108.817354 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.278574 sq. miles (8.491468 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 431.395366 sq. miles (1117.308822 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.512821 N, 79.251941 W
Headwords:
Forest
Forest, PA
Forest County
Forest County, PA
Forest -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 10024
Housing Units (2000): 8322
Land area (2000): 1014.053317 sq. miles (2626.385922 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 32.342832 sq. miles (83.767546 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1046.396149 sq. miles (2710.153468 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.604373 N, 88.770485 W
Headwords:
Forest
Forest, WI
Forest County
Forest County, WI
Forest, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 1488
Housing Units (2000): 644
Land area (2000): 1.187175 sq. miles (3.074768 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.187175 sq. miles (3.074768 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27636
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.800818 N, 83.512403 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Forest, OH
Forest
Forest, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
Population (2000): 275
Housing Units (2000): 108
Land area (2000): 1.662025 sq. miles (4.304624 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.662025 sq. miles (4.304624 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26350
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.791594 N, 91.411978 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Forest, LA
Forest
Forest, VA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Virginia
Population (2000): 8006
Housing Units (2000): 3294
Land area (2000): 14.613938 sq. miles (37.849924 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.085611 sq. miles (0.221732 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.699549 sq. miles (38.071656 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28688
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.370723 N, 79.266801 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24551
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Forest, VA
Forest
Forest, MS -- U.S. city in Mississippi
Population (2000): 5987
Housing Units (2000): 2257
Land area (2000): 13.014636 sq. miles (33.707750 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.020073 sq. miles (0.051990 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.034709 sq. miles (33.759740 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25340
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 32.363627 N, 89.475348 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39074
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Forest, MS
Forest
Forestaff (n.) (Naut.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff. -- Brande & C.
Forestage (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
Forestage (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A service paid by foresters to the king.
Forestage (n.) The part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) [syn: proscenium, apron, forestage].