Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 52
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.) 先…一步行動，佔先一步，壟斷，阻礙 To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? -- Milton.
Forestall (v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of someone 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.
An ugly serpent which forestalled their way. -- Fairfax.
But evermore those damsels did forestall Their furious encounter. -- Spenser.
To be forestalled ere we come to fall. -- Shak.
Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge. -- Rush.
Forestall (v. t.) To deprive; -- with of. [R.]
All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day! -- Shak.
Forestall (v. t.) (Eng. Law) 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.
To forestall the market, To buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. -- Burrill.
Syn: To anticipate; monopolize; engross.
Forestall (v.) Keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: {prevent}, {forestall}, {foreclose}, {preclude}, {forbid}].
Forestall (v.) Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: {anticipate}, {foresee}, {forestall}, {counter}].
Forestaller (n.) One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. -- Locke.
Forestay (n.) (Naut.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
Forestay (n.) An adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast.
Forest bath ( n.) [C] 森林浴 An activity similar to meditation that involves sitting in a forest and focusing on your surroundings.
// I asked myself: who are the world's most intense commuters and what do they do about it? The answer is, of course, the Japanese, and their solution is to take a forest bath. Shin-rin yoku was developed by the Forest Agency Of Japan in the 1980s as a “Simple practice for enhancing health.”
Forester (n.) [C] 林務官，森林管理者；林中居民；林中動物 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. -- Wordsworth.
Forester (n.) A forest tree. [R.] -- Evelyn.
Forester (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Forester (n.) English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966) [syn: Forester, C. S. Forester, Cecil Scott Forester].
Forester (n.) Someone trained in forestry [syn: forester, tree farmer, arboriculturist].
Forestick (n.) Front stick of a hearth fire.
Forestry (n.) 林業；山林管理 [U] The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber. Foreswart
Forestry (n.) The science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber.
Foreswart (a.) Alt. of Foreswart. [Obs.]
Foreswart (a.) [Obs.] See {Forswat}.
Compare: Forswat
Forswat (a.) [See {Sweat}.] Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [Obs.] -- P. Sidney.
Forswat (a.) (Obsolete) Overheated; covered with sweat.
Foretaste (n.) 先嘗；預嘗到的滋味；象徵；預示 A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
Foretaste (v. t.) 先嘗；預嘗到……的滋味 To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
Foretaste (v. t.) To taste before another. "Foretasted fruit." -- Milton.
Foretaste (n.) An early limited awareness of something yet to occur.
Foretaster (n.) 預嘗者，先嘗者 One who tastes beforehand, or before another.
Foreteach (v. t.) To teach beforehand. [Obs.]
Foreteach (v. t.) To teach or instruct beforehand.
Foreteach (v. t.) (In British) To teach (something) ahead of time.
Foretell (v. i.) To utter predictions. -- Acts iii. 24.
Foretold (imp. & p. p.) of Foretell.
Foretelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foretell.
Foretell (v. t.) 預言，預告，預示 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.
Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
Foretell (v.) Foreshadow or presage [syn: {announce}, {annunciate}, {harbinger}, {foretell}, {herald}].
Foretell (v.) Make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell}, {prognosticate}, {call}, {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}].
Foretell (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}].
Foreteller (n.) One who predicts. -- Boyle.
Forethink (v. t.) To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.]
The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. -- Shak.
Forethink (v. t.) To contrive (something) beforehend. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Forethink (v. i.) To contrive beforehand. [Obs.]
Forethought (a.) Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." -- Bacon.
Forethought (n.) A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.
A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom. -- I. Taylor.
Forethought (n.) Planning or plotting in advance of acting [syn: premeditation, forethought].
Forethought (n.) Judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care" [syn: caution, precaution, care, forethought].
Forethoughtful (a.) Having forethought. [R.]
Forethoughtful (a.) Thoughtful of the future; "careful forethoughtful planning."
Foretime (n.) The past; the time before the present. "A very dim foretime." -- J. C. Shairp.
Foretokened (imp. & p. p.) of Foretoken.
Foretokening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foretoken.
Foretoken (v. t.) 成為…之預兆 To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. -- Daniel.
Foretoken (n.) 預兆，預示 Prognostic; previous omen. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Foretoken (n.) An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: {augury}, {sign}, {foretoken}, {preindication}].
Fore teeth (n. pl. ) of Fore tooth.
Fore tooth (Anat.) 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.) (Naut.) The platform at the head of the foremast.
Foretop (n.) A platform at the head of a foremast.
Foretop (n.) A lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears [syn: forelock, foretop].
Fore-topgallant (a.) (Naut.) Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.
Fore-topmast (n.) (Naut.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast; the mast next above the foremast. See Ship.
Fore-topmast (n.) The topmast next above the foremast.
Fore-topsail (n.) (Naut.) The topsail on a foremast. See Sail.
Fore-topsail (n.) The topsail on a foremast.
Forever (adv.) Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
Forever (adv.) At all times; always.
Note: In England, for and ever are usually written and printed as two separate words; but, in the United States, the general practice is to make but a single word of them.
Forever and ever, An emphatic "forever."
Syn: Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably; incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly; ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly; eternally.
Forever (adv.) For a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore" -- P.P.Bliss [syn: everlastingly, eternally, forever, evermore].
Forever (adv.) For a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day" [syn: forever, forever and a day].
Forever (adv.) Without interruption; "the world is constantly changing" [syn: constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantly].
Forevouched (a.) Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. [R.] -- Shak.
Foreward (n.) The van; the front. [Obs.]
My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. -- Shak.
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.
We were forewarned of your coming. -- Shak.
Forewarn (v.) Warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning; "I forewarned him of the trouble that would arise if he showed up at his ex-wife's house" [syn: forewarn, previse].
Forewaste (v. t.) See Forewaste. -- Gascoigne.
Forewend (v. t.) To go before. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Forewish (v. t.) To wish beforehand.
Forewit (n.) A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste. [Obs.]
Nor that the forewits, that would draw the rest unto their liking, always like the best. -- B. Jonson.
Forewit (n.) Foresight; prudence.
Let this forewit guide thy thought. -- Southwell.
Forewot (pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing.) of Forewite. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forewite (v. t.) [pres. indic. sing., 1st & 3d pers. Forewot, 2d person Forewost, pl. Forewiten; imp. sing. Forewiste, pl. Forewisten; p. pr. & vb. n. Forewiting.] [AS. forewitan. See Wit to know.] To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] -- Chaucer.
Forewost (2d person) of Forewite.
Forewiten (n. pl.) of Forewite.
Forewiste (imp. sing.) of Forewite.
Forewisten (n. pl.) of Forewite.
Forewiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forewite.
Forewite (v. t.) To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] -- Chaucer.
Forewomen (n. 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. -- Tatler. -- W. Besant.
Forewoman (n.) A woman who is foreperson of a jury [syn: forewoman, forelady].
Forewoman (n.) A woman in charge of a group of workers
Foreword (n.) A preface. -- Furnvall.
Foreword (n.) A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book [syn: foreword, preface, prolusion].
Foreworn (a.) Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic]
Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. -- Brydges.
Forewot () pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forewite (v. t.) [AS. forewitan. See Wit to know.] To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] -- Chaucer.
Forex deal (n.) A contract between a currency trader and a market maker that indicates the currencies being bought and sold, the amount of currency involved, and the exchange rate that the two currencies will be traded at.
Foreyard (n.) (Naut.) The lowermost yard on the foremast.
Note: [See Illust. of Ship.]
Forfalture (n.) Forfeiture. [Obs.]
Forfeit (n.) Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.]
To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. -- Ld. Berners.
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.
Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. -- Shak.
Forfeit (n.) Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day. -- Goldsmith.
Forfeit (v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. [Obs.]
Forfeit (v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation. [Obs.]
I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. -- Shak.
Forfeit (p. p. or a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. -- Shak.
Once more I will renew His laps[`e]d powers, though forfeite. -- Milton.
Forfeit (a.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. -- Shak.
To tread the forfeit paradise. -- Emerson.
Forfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Forfeit.
Forfeiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forfeit.
Forfeit (v. t.) 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.
[They] had forfeited their property by their crimes. -- Burke.
Undone and forfeited to cares forever! -- Shak.
Forfeit (a.) Surrendered as a penalty [syn: confiscate, forfeit, forfeited].
Forfeit (n.) Something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty; [syn: forfeit, forfeiture].
Forfeit (n.) A penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time" [syn: forfeit, forfeiture].
Forfeit (n.) The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. [syn: forfeit, forfeiture, sacrifice].
Forfeit (v.) Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" [syn: forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego] [ant: arrogate, claim, lay claim].
Forfeitable (a.) Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. -- Blackstone.
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.
Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. -- Hakluyt.
Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
What should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture? -- Shak.
Syn: Fine; mulct; amercement; penalty.
Forfeiture (n.) Something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty; [syn: forfeit, forfeiture].
Forfeiture (n.) A penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time" [syn: forfeit, forfeiture].
Forfeiture (n.) The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. [syn: forfeit, forfeiture, sacrifice].
Forfeiture, () punishment, torts. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act, or negligence, in the owner of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whereby he loses all his interest therein, and they become vested in the party injured, as a recompense for the wrong which he alone, or the Public together with himself, hath sustained. 2 Bl. Com. 267.
Forfeiture, () Lands, tenements and hereditaments, may be forfeited by various means: 1. By the commission of crimes and misdemeanors. 2. By alienation contrary to law. 3. By the non-performance of conditions. 4. By waste.
Forfeiture, () Forfeiture for crimes. By the Constitution of the United States, art. 3, s. 3, it is declared that no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. And by the Act of April 30, 1790, s. 24, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 88, it is enacted, that no conviction or judgment for any of the offences aforesaid, shall work corruption of blood, or any forfeiture of estate. As the offences punished by this act are of the blackest dye, including cases of treason, the punishment of forfeiture may be considered as being abolished. The forfeiture of the estate for crime is very much reduced in practice in this country, and when it occurs, the stater takes the title the party had, and no more. 4 Mason's R. 174; Dalrymple on Feudal Property, c. 4, p. 145-154; Fost. C. L. 95.
Forfeiture, () Forfeiture by alienation. By the English law, estates less than a fee may be forfeited to the party entitled to the residuary interest by a breach of duty in the owner of the particular estate. When a tenant for life or years, therefore, by feoffment, fine, or recovery, conveys a greater estate than he is by law entitled to do, he forfeits his estate to the person next entitled in remainder or reversion. 2 Bl. Com. 274. In this country, such forfeitures are almost unknown, and the more just principle prevails, that the conveyance by the tenant operates only on the interest which he possessed, and does not affect the remainder-man or reversioner. 4 Kent, Com. 81, 82, 424; 1 Hill. Ab. c. 4, s. 25 to 34; 3 Dall. Rep. 486; 5 Ohio, R. 30.
Forfeiture, () Forfeiture by non-performance of conditions. An estate may be forfeited by a breach, or non-performance of a condition annexed to the estate, either expressed in the deed at its original creation, or impliedly by law, from a principle of natural reason. 2 Bl. Com. 281; and see Ad Eject. 140 to 173. Vide article Reentry; 12 Serg. & Rawle, 190.
Forfeiture, () Forfeiture by waste. Waste is also a cause of forfeiture. 2 Bl. Com. 283. Vide article Waste.
Forfeiture, () By forfeiture is also understood the neglect of an obligor to fulfill his obligation in proper time: as, when one has entered into a bond for a penal sum, upon condition to pay a smaller at a particular day, and he fails to do it, there is then said to be a forfeiture. Again, when a party becomes bound in a certain sum by a recognizance to pay a certain sum, with a condition that he will appear at court to answer or prosecute a crime, and he fails to do it, there is a forfeiture of the recognizance. Courts of equity, and now courts, of law, will relieve from the forfeiture of a bond; and upon a proper case shown, criminal courts will in general relieve from the forfeiture of a recognizance to appear. See 3 Yeates, 93; 2 Wash. C. C. 442 Blackf. 104, 200; Breeze, 257. Vide, generally, 2 Bl. Com. ch. 18; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; 2 Kent's Com; 318; 4 Id. 422; 10 Vin. Ab. 371, 394 13 Vin. Ab. 436; Bac. Ab. Forfeiture Com. Dig. h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.; 1 Bro Civ. L. 252 4 Bl. Com. 382; and Considerations on the Law of Forfeiture for High Treason, London ed. l746.
Forfend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. [Archaic]
Which peril heaven forefend! -- Shak.
Note: This is etymologically the preferable spelling.
Forfend (v.) Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off].
Forfered (p. p. & a.) Excessively alarmed; in great fear. [Obs.] "Forfered of his death." -- Chaucer.
Forfete (v. i.) To incur a penalty; to transgress. [Obs.]
And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never forfeted. -- Chaucer.
Forfex (n.) A pair of shears. -- Pope.
Forficate (a.) (Zool.) Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.
Forficate (a.) Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy]
Forficula (n.) (Zool.) A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.
Forficula (n.) Type genus of Forficulidae [syn: Forficula, genus Forficula].
Forgather (v. i.) To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. -- Wilson.
Forgather (v.) Collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather].
Forgave () imp. of Forgive.
Forgive (v. t.) [imp. Forgave; p. p. Forgiven; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgiving] To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. -- Spenser.
Forgive (v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
And their sins should be forgiven them. -- Mark iv. 12.
He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them. -- Macaulay.
Forgive (v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. -- Luke xxiii. 34.
I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven. -- Shak.
Note: Sometimes both the person and the offense follow as objects of the verb, sometimes one and sometimes the other being the indirect object. "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." -- Matt. vi. 12. "Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." -- Matt. ix. 2.
Syn: See excuse.
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.
In the quick forge and working house of thought. -- Shak.
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. [Obs.]
In the greater bodies the forge was easy. -- Bacon.
American forge, A forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. -- Raymond.
Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan.
Forge cinder, The dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
Forge rolls, Forge train, The train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.
Forge wagon (Mil.), A wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.
Portable forge, A light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.
Forged (imp. & p. p.) of Forge.
Forging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forge.