Part 4480

<hw>Fore"arm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.</def>

<h1>Forebeam</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore"beam`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The breast beam of a loom.</def>

<h1>Forebear</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bear"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An ancestor. See <er>Forbear</er>.</def>

<h1>Forebode</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bode"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Foreboded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Foreboding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>forebodian</ets>; <ets>fore + bodian</ets> to announce. See <er>Bode</er> <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To foretell.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>His heart <b>forebodes</b> a mystery. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Sullen, desponding, and <b>foreboding</b> nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C\'91sar's death. <i>Middleton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I have a sort of <b>foreboding</b> about him. <i>H. James.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.</syn>

<h1>Forebode</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bode"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To fortell; to presage; to augur.</def>

<blockquote>If I <b>forebode</b> aright. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Forebode</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bode"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Prognostication; presage.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Forebodement</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bode"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.</def>

<h1>Foreboder</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bod"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who forebodes.</def>

<h1>Foreboding</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bod"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.</def>

<h1>Forebodingly</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore*bod"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a foreboding manner.</def>

<h1>Forebrace</h1> <Xpage=583>

<hw>Fore"brace`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.</def>

<h1>Forebrain</h1> <Xpage=583>