Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Straightforward; favorable; fair, as a wind.
- Straightforward; abrupt; blunt; bold.
- Straight forward; right on; onward.
- n. In early feudal law, the preference (of an elder son or brother) in inheritance; the right of primogeniture.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Ready; directly forward; going before.
- adv. obsolete Right forward; onward.
Examples
“The Entrance is up a few stone steps into a Large high hall and so to a passage that Leads foreright up a good stair Case.”
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
“We must view it in every direction, "survey it," as Sterne says, "transversely, then foreright, then this way, and then that, in all its possible directions and foreshortenings6;" and thus only can it be expected that we should adequately comprehend it.”
“By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain'd a lodgement.”
“Or, if he means a headlong torrent for a tide, which would be ridiculous, yet they do riot wind in volumes, but come foreright back, (if their upright lies straight to their former course,) and that by opposition of the sea-water, that drives them back again.”
“By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain’d a lodgement.”
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