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Fore`ap*point" (?), v. t. To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. Sherwood.

Fore`ap*point"ment (?), n. Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood.

Fore*arm" (?), v. t. To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.

Fore"arm` (?), n. (Anat.) That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.

Fore"beam` (?), n. The breast beam of a loom.

Fore*bear" (?), n. An ancestor. See Forbear.

Fore*bode" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.] 1. To foretell.

2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.

His heart forebodes a mystery.

Tennyson.

Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of CÊsar's death.

Middleton.

I have a sort of foreboding about him.

H. James.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

Fore*bode", v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur.

If I forebode aright.

Hawthorne.

Fore*bode", n. Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

Fore*bode"ment (?), n. The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

Fore*bod"er (?), n. One who forebodes.

Fore*bod"ing, n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

Fore*bod"ing*ly, adv. In a foreboding manner.

Fore"brace` (?), n. (Naut.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

Fore"brain` (?), n. (Anat.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

Fore*by" (?), prep. [Fore + by.] Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby. Spenser.

Fore*cast" (?), v. t. 1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds.