📖 F — The English dictionary · page 33

forefoot — Everyday, meaning 1: One of the front feet of an animal with four legs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sailing) The lowest front part of a ship's hull, where the keel meets the stem.↗ Example: The mole digs with its broad forefeet.↗ · The pony lifted one forefoot to be shod.↗ · The dog put a forefoot on my knee.↗ · A kangaroo's forefeet are small; its back feet are huge.↗ · The rabbit cleaned its face with its forefeet.↗ · The ship's forefoot cut through the water.↗

forefront — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The very front part of something, the part that faces forward.↗ Example: And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.↗ (Torah EXO.26.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.↗ (Torah EXO.28.37, JPS 1917)↗ · And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.↗ (Prophets EZK.40.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, eastward as also northward.↗ (Prophets EZK.40.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And he wrote in the letter, saying: 'Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.11.15, JPS 1917)↗

forego — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To go without something, or to give it up.↗

foregoing — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Coming just before; what has been said or written earlier.↗ Example: From the foregoing it is evident that so far we have no historic document by which to prove either the authorship or the exact age of the Sefer Yetzirah.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

forehead — Everyday, meaning 1: Your forehead is the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair.↗ Example: Mum felt my forehead to see if I had a fever.↗ · He got a bump on his forehead when he hit the door.↗ · She wiped the sweat off her forehead.↗ · Harry Potter has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead.↗ · Dad kissed me on the forehead.↗ · The thermometer beeped when it touched my forehead.↗ · He wrinkled his forehead as he thought about the problem.↗ · The baby has curly hair over her forehead.↗ · All had horns growing on their foreheads.↗ · And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.↗ (Torah LEV.13.41, JPS 1917)↗ · But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.↗ (Torah LEV.13.42, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, (Torah LEV.13.43, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.↗ (Prophets EZK.3.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.↗ (Prophets JER.3.3, JPS 1917)↗ · As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.'↗ (Prophets EZK.3.9, JPS 1917)↗

foreign — Everyday, meaning 1: Foreign means from or belonging to another country, not your own.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Foreign means strange or unknown to you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A foreign object or body is something that is in a place where it should not be, like dirt in an eye.↗ Example: French is a foreign language for me.↗ · We changed our money into foreign currency.↗ · He has never been to a foreign country.↗ · The doctor took a foreign body out of her eye.↗ · The idea of a lie-in was foreign to my dad.↗ · Foreign visitors came to our school.↗ · Don't put foreign objects in your ears.↗ · The museum has coins from many foreign lands.↗ · Ah, how delightful it is to travel into foreign lands!"↗ · And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem.↗ (Torah GEN.35.4, JPS 1917)↗ · If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.↗ (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917)↗ · How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?↗ (Writings PSA.137.4, JPS 1917)↗ · There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.↗ (Writings PSA.81.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.↗ (Prophets 1KI.11.8, JPS 1917)↗

foreigner — Everyday, meaning 1: A person from another country.↗ Example: The town welcomes foreigners every summer.↗ · When I went to France, I was the foreigner.↗ · Many foreigners come to see the old castle.↗ · Some people feel like foreigners in a new country at first.↗ · The guide spoke English to the foreigners.↗ · Be kind to newcomers and foreigners.↗ · One evening the foreigner sat in the balcony.↗ · Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.↗ (Torah DEU.15.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.↗ (Torah GEN.17.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed.↗ (Torah GEN.17.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.↗ (Writings NEH.9.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And his master said unto him: 'We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.'↗ (Prophets JDG.19.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite: 'Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king; for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile from thine own place.↗ (Prophets 2SA.15.19, JPS 1917)↗

foreleg — Everyday, meaning 1: One of the two front legs of an animal such as a horse, dog or cow.↗ Example: The horse kicked out with its foreleg.↗ · The dog rested its foreleg on my knee.↗ · The cow had mud on each foreleg.↗

forelimb — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) One of the front legs of an animal with four legs, or the wing or arm that is in the same place, such as a bird's wing or a person's arm.↗ Example: A bat's wing is its forelimb.↗ · A mole uses its strong forelimbs to dig.↗ · The kangaroo's forelimbs are short.↗ · Whales have flippers instead of forelimbs with fingers.↗ · T. rex had tiny forelimbs.↗ · Human arms are forelimbs.↗

forelock — Everyday, meaning 1: A forelock is a lock (bunch) of hair that grows just above the forehead, on a person or a horse.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «To tug your forelock» (UK, old) means to show too much respect to someone rich or powerful, as servants once did.↗ Example: She brushed her pony's forelock.↗ · A long forelock fell over his eyes.↗ · The horse's forelock blew in the wind.↗ · In old times, farm workers tugged their forelocks to the squire.↗ · Plait the forelock before the show.↗ · His forelock was always messy.↗ · The prince advanced and saluted it; it proudly drooped its head and forelocks and paced to the platform.↗

foreman — Everyday, meaning 1: A worker in charge of a group of workers, for example on a building site or in a factory.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) The person who speaks for a jury in court.↗ Example: The foreman told the builders where to start.↗ · My uncle is a foreman at the factory.↗ · The foreman checked everyone was wearing a hard hat.↗ · The jury foreman stood up to give the verdict.↗ · Ask the foreman before you go on site.↗ · The foreman counted the workers each morning.↗

foremost — Everyday, meaning 1: First in place, rank or order; the one at the front.↗ Example: The foremost runner crossed the line.↗ · The foremost buffalo charged at the river.↗ · The grasshopper went foremost with his cousin behind.↗ · And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.↗ (Torah GEN.33.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?↗ (Torah GEN.32.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the watchman said: 'I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.'↗ And the king said: 'He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.18.27, JPS 1917)↗

forenoon — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned, formal) The morning; the time before midday.↗ Example: We sailed in the forenoon and landed after lunch.↗ · The meeting is in the forenoon.↗ · In the old diary, the farmer worked all forenoon in the fields.↗ · The ship's forenoon watch begins at 8 o'clock.↗ · By the end of the forenoon the snow had stopped.↗ · Forenoon is an old word for morning.↗ · "Don't go talking nonsense, Mashka; as if suitors[282] generally turned up in the forenoon.↗

forepart — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The front part of something.↗ Example: And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.39.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.28.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.↗ (Torah EXO.39.20, JPS 1917)↗

forepaw — Everyday, meaning 1: A front foot (paw) of an animal that has paws, such as a dog, cat, bear or squirrel.↗ Example: The squirrel held the nut in its forepaws.↗ · The dog raised one forepaw to shake hands.↗ · Badgers dig with their strong forepaws.↗ · The kitten licked its forepaw clean.↗ · The bear's forepaw left a big print in the mud.↗ · They certainly set off his paws wonderfully, and he stretched out his forepaws and looked at them with pride.↗

forerunner — Everyday, meaning 1: A forerunner is a person or thing that came before another and led the way for it: «The abacus was a forerunner of the calculator».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A forerunner can be a sign that something is about to happen.↗ Example: The abacus was a forerunner of the calculator.↗ · The gramophone was a forerunner of today's music players.↗ · Christians call John the Baptist the forerunner of Jesus.↗ · Dark clouds are often the forerunner of a storm.↗ · This early plane was a forerunner of the jumbo jet.↗ · The Romans' roads were forerunners of modern motorways.↗

foresail — Everyday, meaning 1: The main sail on the front mast of a ship.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: On a small sailing boat, the sail in front of the mast, such as a jib.↗ Example: The sailors hoisted the foresail as the wind rose.↗ · The foresail filled with wind and the boat leapt forward.↗ · In a storm they took down the foresail.↗ · The Sea Rat told of ships with patched foresails sailing south.↗ · Our dinghy has a mainsail and a small foresail.↗ · Pull the rope to tighten the foresail.↗

foresee — Everyday, meaning 1: To foresee something is to know or guess that it will happen before it does.↗ Example: Nobody could foresee the storm.↗ · Do you foresee any problems with the plan?↗ · The teacher foresaw that the trip would be muddy and told us to bring boots.↗ · In the story, the witch foresaw the king's fall.↗ · We couldn't have foreseen the road being closed.↗ · Good planners foresee what might go wrong.↗ · “Oh! no, do not go, for if you go home to the King’s palace you will forget me, I foresee that.”↗

foreshore — Everyday, meaning 1: The part of a beach between the high-tide line and the low-tide line, covered by the sea at high tide.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The land along the edge of a sea, lake or river.↗ Example: At low tide we explored the rock pools on the foreshore.↗ · The foreshore is covered by the sea twice a day.↗ · Check the tide times before walking on the foreshore.↗ · The Thames foreshore in London is full of old clay pipes and pottery.↗ · We had a picnic on the foreshore at Darwin.↗ · Crabs scuttled across the wet foreshore.↗

foreskin — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The loose skin at the tip of the male body part that is cut off in circumcision.↗ Example: Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.↗ (Torah DEU.10.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.↗ (Torah LEV.12.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.↗ (Torah GEN.17.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying: 'Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.3.14, JPS 1917)↗ · and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law.↗ (Prophets 1SA.18.27, JPS 1917)↗