Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as fore.

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  • adverb obsolete Fore, before; forward; previously.

Etymologies

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From Middle English, from Old English foran ("before, in front, forward, to the front"). More at fore.

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Examples

  • Normally busy streets and cafes were epty Thursday while crowds flocked to voting stations in defiance of the last-minute call forn ecion boycott by the country's former rebel moveent.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The forn was a bold Man, and durft do any thing that v brave: The latter was a cunning Statefman.

    The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy [G.P. Marana] at Paris. Tr. [by W. Bradshaw ... 1707

  • I am also quite forn of exterminating feral hogs. but I also love to deer hunt and am also a fool about upland game and waterfowl.

    What's your favorite game to hunt? Why? 2009

  • Raimon cantant Ausis Marc, Veles e vents (una llengua aix no mereix extingir-se), sempre mha semblat agosarat Marc quan escrivia bullir el mar com la cassola al forn

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Raimon cantant Ausis Marc, Veles e vents (una llengua aix no mereix extingir-se), sempre mha semblat agosarat Marc quan escrivia bullir el mar com la cassola al forn

    JJ Moreso: Trobada amb JPAS admin 2009

  • I am also quite forn of exterminating feral hogs. but I also love to deer hunt and am also a fool about upland game and waterfowl.

    What's your favorite game to hunt? Why? 2009

  • "Cal-ee-forn-ee-yeh," he mumbled twice and thrice, listening intently to the sound of the syllables as they fell from his lips.

    THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010

  • Outgoing Cah-lee-forn-ia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger really seizing the moment: "The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers tonight, just like California voters are going to defeat the attempts of dirty Texas oil companies to undo our clean energy laws at the polls tomorrow Proposition 23, which would suspend the state's greenhouse gas law."

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Outgoing Cah-lee-forn-ia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger really seizing the moment: "The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers tonight, just like California voters are going to defeat the attempts of dirty Texas oil companies to undo our clean energy laws at the polls tomorrow Proposition 23, which would suspend the state's greenhouse gas law."

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • June 7, 2010 at 12:41 pm ai know how yew feel. primaries are tomorrow in cale-forn-ya, so we are still getting bombarded!

    As Hector completed yet one more initiation requirement, he - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

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