Part 278

So rich advantage of a promised glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action.

Shak.

Fore*hear" (?), v. i. & t. To hear beforehand.

Fore"hearth` (?), n. (Metal.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

Fore*hend" (?), v. t. See Forhend. [Obs.]

Fore*hew" (?), v. t. To hew or cut in front. [Obs.] Sackville.

Fore"hold` (?), n. (Naut.) The forward part of the hold of a ship.

Fore*hold"ing (?), n. Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Fore"hook` (?), n. (Naut.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

For"eign (?), a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose, Forfeit, Forest, Forum.] 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton.

2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury.

Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.

Milton.

3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.

This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts.

Swift.

4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]

Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died.

Shak.

Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story. -- Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. - - Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

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Syn. -- Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous; extrinsic.

For"eign*er (?), n. A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.

Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts.

Denham.

Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects.

Swift.

For"eign*ism (?), n. Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.