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<blockquote>Her danger nigh that sudden change <b>foresaid</b>. <i>Fairfax.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Foresee</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*see"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>forese\'a2n</ets>; <ets>fore + se\'a2n</ets> to see. See <er>See</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.</def>

<blockquote>A prudent man <b>foreseeth</b> the evil. <i>Prov. xxii. 3.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To provide.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without <b>foreseeing</b> means of life. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Foresee</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*see"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To have or exercise foresight.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Foreseen</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*seen"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>conj.</tt><def>, or (strictly) <i>p. p.</i> Provided; in case that; on condition that.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, <b>foreseen</b> that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. <i>Sir T. Elyot.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Foreseer</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*se"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who foresees or foreknows.</def>

<h1>Foreseize</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*seize"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To seize beforehand.</def>

<h1>Foreshadow</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*shad"ow</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To shadow or typi<?/y beforehand; to prefigure.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Foreshew</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*shew"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>See <er>Foreshow</er>.</def>

<h1>Foreship</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore"ship`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The fore part of a ship.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Foreshorten</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*short"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Fine Art)</fld> <def>To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.</def>

<blockquote>Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie <b>Foreshortened</b> in the tract of time. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Foreshortening</h1> <Xpage=584>

<hw>Fore*short"en*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.</def>

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