Id.

Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts, I know Not how to entertain him. Denham's Sophy. To this false foreigner you give your throne, And wronged a friend, a kinsman, and a son.

Dryden's Æneid. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavouring to set me right. Locke.

There are who, fondly studious of increase, Rich foreign mould in their ill-natured land

Induce.

I must dissemble,

Philips.

And speak a language foreign to my heart.

Addison,

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures, that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it, placed out of the possibility of fruition. Id. Water is the only native of England made use of in punch; but the lemons, the brandy, the sugar, and the nutmegs, are all foreigners. Id.

The parties and divisions amongst us may several ways bring destruction upon our country, at the same time that our united force would secure us against all the attempts of a foreign enemy. Id. Freeholder. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater lustre, either to foreigners or subjects.

Id.

The positions are so far from being new, that they are commonly to be met with in both ancient and modern, domestick and foreign, writers. Atterbury.

'Twas merely known, that on a secret mission A foreigner of rauk had graced our shore, Young, handsome, and accomplished, who was said (In whispers) to have turned his sovereign's head. Byron.

FOREIGN, in the English law, is used in various significations. Thus :

FOREIGN ATTACHMENT, is an attachment of the goods of foreigners found within a city or liberty, for the satisfaction of some citizen to whom the foreigner is indebted; or it signifies an attachment of a foreigner's money in the hands of another person.

At the instance of an ambassador or consul, any offender against the laws here may be sent for hither from a foreign kingdom to which he hath fled. And, where a stranger of Holland, or any foreign country, buys goods in London, for instance, and there gives a note under his hand for payment, and then goes away privately into Holland: in that case, the seller may have a certificate from the lord mayor, on the proof of the sale and delivery of such goods, whereupon a process will be executed on the party in Hol

land.

FOREIMAGINE, v. a. Fore and imagine. To conceive or fancy before proof.

We are within compass of a foreimagined possibility in that behalf. Camden's Remains.

FOREJUDGE', v. a. Fore and judge. To judge beforehand; to be prepossessed; to prejudge.

FOREKNOW, v. a.
Fore and know.
FOREKNOWLEDGE, n. s. To have prescience
FOREKNOW ABLE, adj. Sof; to foresee: possi-

knowledge of that which has not yet happened.

Wherefore for to departen softily,

Toke purpose ful this wight, forknowing, wise;
And to the Grekes host, ful prively,

He stale anon.

Chaucer. Troilus and Creseide.

It is certainly foreknowable what they will do in such and such circumstances.

More. Our being in Christ by eternal foreknowledge, saveth us not without our actual and real adoption into the fellowship of his saints in this present world. Hooker.

I told him you was asleep: he seems to have a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore chuses to speak with you. Shakspeare.

We foreknow that the sun will rise and set, that all men born in the world shall die again; that after Winter the Spring shall come; after the Spring, Summer and Harvest; yet is not our foreknowledge the Raleigh. cause of any of those.

but

He foreknew John should not suffer a violent death,
Browne.
into his grave in peace.
go
If I foreknew,

Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault,
Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.

Milton.

Who would the miseries of man foreknow? Not knowing, we but share our part of woe.

Dryden.

I hope the foreknowledge you had of my esteem for you, is the reason that you do not dislike my letters. Pope.

FORE'LAND, n. s. Fore and land. A promontory; headland; high land jutting into the sea; a cape.

As when a ship, by skilful steersman wrought, Nigh river's mouth, or foreland, where the wind Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sails.

Milton.

FORELA'Y, v. a. Fore and lay. To lay wait for; to intrap by ambush; to contrive antecedently.

A serpent shoots his sting at unaware; An ambushed thief forelays a traveller : The man lies murdered, while the thief and snake, One gains the thickets, and one thrids the brake.

Dryden. FORELIFT', v.a. Fore and lift. To raise aloft any interior part.

So dreadfully he towards him did pass, Forelifting up aloft his speckled breast;

And often bounding on the bruised grass, As for great joy of his new comen guest. Spenser. FORE'LOCK, n. s. Fore and lock. The hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

Tell her the joyous time will not be staid, Unless she do him by the forelock take. Spenser. Hyacinthine locks,

Round from his parted forelock manly hung, Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. Milton.

Zeal and duty are not slow,

But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. Id. Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. Swift. Fore and man. The first

FORE'MAN, n. s. or chief person.

He is a very sensible man, shoots flying, and has

been several times foreman of the petty jury. Addison.

FOREMENTIONED, adj. Fore and mentioned. Mentioned or recited before. It is observable that many particles are compounded with fore, whose verbs have no such composition. Dacier, in the life of Aurelius, has not taken notice of the forementioned figure on the pillar.

Addison on Italy. FOREMOST, adj. From fore. First in place: first in dignity.

All three were set among the foremost ranks of fame, for great minds to attempt, and great force to perform what they did attempt. Sidney.

These ride foremost in the field,
As they the foremost rank of honour held.

Dryden.
The bold Sempronius,
That still broke foremost through the crowd of patriots,
As with a hurricane of zeal transported,
And virtuous even to madness.

Addison's Cato

And such are sure ones,

As Curius and the forenamed Lentulus.

Ben Jonson. FORE'NOON, n. s. Fore and noon. The time of day reckoned from the middle point, between the dawn and the meridian, to the meridian: opposed to afternoon.

The manner was, that the forenoon they should run at tilt, the afternoon in a broad field in manner of a battle, 'till either the strangers or the country knights won the field. Sidney.

Curio, at the funeral of his father, built a temporary theatre, consisting of two parts turning on hinges, according to the position of the sun, for the conveniency

of forenoon's and afternoon's diversion.

Arbuthnot on Coins.

FOREORDAIN', v. a. Fore and ordain. To predestinate; to predetermine; to preordain.

The church can discharge, in manner convenient, a work of so great importance, by foreordaining some short collect wherein briefly to mention thanks. Hooker.

FORE PART, n. s. Fore and part. The part first in time: the part anterior in place. Had it been so raised, it would deprive us of the sun's light all the forepart of the day. Raleigh.

The ribs have no cavity in them, and towards the forepart or breast are broad and thin, to bend and give way without danger of fracture. Ray.

VOL. IX.

Yet leave our cousin Catherine here with us; She is our capital demand, comprised Within the forerank of our articles.

Shakspeare.

Fore and recite.

FORERECITED, adj.
Mentioned or enumerated before.
Bid him recount

The forerecited practices, whereof
We cannot feel too little, hear too much.

Id.

way,

Already opera prepares the The sure forerunner of her gentle sway. Pope. For I have drawn much less with a long bow

Than my forerunners.

Byron.

Let ordinance

Come as the gods foresay it.

To pre

Shakspeare. Cymbeline. FORESEE', v. a. Fore and see. To see before hand; to see what has not yet happened; to have prescience; to foreknow. To provide for; with to. Out of use.

The first of them could things to come foresee ;
The next could of things present best advise;
The third things past could keep in memory.

Faerie Queene. A king against a storm must foresee to a convenient stock of treasure. Bacon.

If there be any thing foreseen that is not usual, be armed for it by a hearty though a short prayer, and an earnest resolution beforehand, and then watch when it comes. Taylor.

No sooner by his incomprehensible wisdom did he foresee we should lose ourselves, than by his immense grace he did conclude to restore us.

Barrow.

Therefore of clay, base, vile, and next to nought, Yet formed by wondrous skill, and by his might, According to an heavenly patterne wrought, Which He had fashioned in his wise foresight, He man did make, and breathed a living spright Into his face, most beautifull and fayre, Endewd with wisdomes riches, heavenly rare.

Spenser.

He had a sharp foresight, and working wit, That never idle was, ne once could rest a whit.

Id. In matters of arms he was both skilful and industrious, and as well in foresight as resolution present and great. Hayward.

Death gave him no such pangs as the foresightful care he had of his silly successor. Sidney.

Let Eve, for I have drenched her eyes,
Here sleep below; while thou to foresight wak'st,
As once thou sleep'st, whilst she to life was formed.
Milton.

For their wise general, with forseeing care,
Had charged them not to tempt the doubtful war;
Nor though provoked in open fields advance,
But close within their lines attend their chance.

Dryden. FORESIG'NIFY, v. a. Fore and signify. To betoken beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.

Discoveries of Christ already present, whose future Hooker. coming the Psalms did but foresignify.

Yet as being past times noxious, where they light On man, beast, plant, wasteful and turbulent, They oft foresignify, and threaten ill. FORE'SKIN, n. s. Fore and skin.

prepuce.

Their own hand

Milton.

The

An hundred of the faithless foe shall slay,
And for a dower their hundred foreskins pay,
Be Michal thy reward. Cowley's Davideis.
FORE'SKIRT, n. s. Fore and skirt. The
pendulous or loose part of the coat before.

A thousand pounds a year for pure respect!
No other obligation?
That promises more thousands: honour's train
Is longer than his foreskirt.

Shakspeare. Henry VIII. FORESLACK', v. a. Fore and slack. To neglect by idleness.

It is a great pity that so good an opportunity was omitted, and so happy an occasion foreslacked, that might have been the eternal good of the land. Spenser's State of Ireland. FORESLOW', v. a. & v. n. Fore and slow. To delay; to hinder; to impede; to obstruct; to neglect; to omit; to loiter; to be dilatory. This may plant courage in their quailing breasts, For yet is hope of life and victory;

Foreslow no longer, make we hence amain.

Shakspeare.

When the rebels were on Blackheath, the king knowing well that it stood him upon, by how much the more he had hitherto protracted the time in not encountering them, by so much the sooner to dispatch with them, that it might appear to have ceen no coldness in foreslowing, but wisdom in chusing his time, resolved with speed to assail them.

Bacon's Henry VII. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax. Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tor mentors upon our death-bed.

Bishop Hall.

Now the illustrious nymph returned again, Brings every grace triumphant in her train;

The wondering Nereids, though they raised no storm, Foreslowed her passage to behold her form. Dryden.

Chremes, how many fishers do you know That rule their boats and use their nets aright,

That neither wind, nor time, nor tide foreslow? Some such have been: but, ah! by tempests spite Their boats are lost,; while we may sit and moan That few were such, and now these few are none. P. Fletcher.

FORESPEAK', v. n. Fore and speak. To predict; to foresay; to foreshow; to foretell. To forbid. From for and speak.

Thou hast forespoke my being in these wars, And sayest it is not fit.

Shakspeare. Antony and Cleopatra. Old Godfrey of Winchester, thinketh no ominous forespeaking to lie in names. Camden's Remains.

FORESPENT', adj. Fore and spent. Wasted; tired; spent. Forepassed; past. Fore and spent. Bestowed before.

Is not enough thy evil life forespent?

Faerie Queene.
You shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

Shakspeare.

FOREST, n. s. FOREST'ER, n. s.

spur.

Shakspeare.

Fr. forest; Ital. foresta; Welsh, forest; Teut. foFOREST BORN, adj. rest. According to Du Cange from the Lat. feris, i. e. ferarum statio, a station for wild beasts: according to Vossius and Spelman from the Lat. foris, i. e. beyond the gate of towns. A wild uncultivated tract of ground interspersed with wood; an officer of the forest; an inhabitant of a wild country.

First on the wall was peinted a forest In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best; With knotty, knarry, barrein trees old, Of stubbes sharpe, and hidous to behold; In which ther ran a romble and a swough, As though a storme shuld bresten every bough. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale. There overtoke. Ta grete route Of hunters and of foresters.

Id. Boke of the Duchesse. By many tribulations we enter into the kingdom of heaven, because, in a forest of many wolves, sheep cannot chuse but feed in continual danger of life. Hooker.

Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnham-wood to Dunsinane's high hill Shall come against him.

-That will never be :

Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
Unfix his earth-bound root. Shakspeare. Macbeth.
Forester, my friend, where is the bush,
That we may stand and play the murtherer in?
-Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice.
Shakspeare.

FOREST, in geography. The Caledonian and Hercynian forests are famous in history. The first was a celebrated retreat of the ancient Picts and Scots; the latter anciently occupied the greatest part of Europe; particularly Germany, Poland, Hungary, &c. In Cæsar's time it ex

tended from the borders of Alsatia and Switzerland to Transylvania, and was computed sixty days' journey long, and nine broad: some parts or cantons thereof are still remaining. The ancients adored forests, and imagined a great part of their gods to reside therein; temples were frequently built in the thickest forests; the gloom and silence whereof naturally inspire sentiments of devotion, and turn men's thoughts within themselves. For similar reasons the Druids made forests the place of their residence, performed their sacrifices, instructed their youth, and gave laws in them.

FOREST, in law. Forests are bounded with unremoveable marks and meres; either known by record or prescription; replenished with wild beasts of venery or chase, with great coverts of vert for the said beasts; for preservation and continuance whereof, with the vert and venison, there are certain particular laws, privileges, and officers. A forest in the hands of a subject is properly the same thing with a chase; being subject to the common law, and not to the forest laws. But a chase differs from a forest, in that it is not enclosed; and likewise that a man may have a chase in another man's ground as well as his own; being, indeed, the liberty of keeping beasts of chase, or royal game therein, protected even from the owner of the land, with a power of hunting them thereon. See PARK. Though the king may erect a forest on his own ground and waste, he may not do it on the ground of other persons without their consent; and agreements with them for that purpose ought to be confirmed by parliament. If he grants a forest to a subject, on request made in the chancery, that subject