forefront (forfrunt)

t. [ build or add a forefront to. [Rare.] to make it even. Fray of Suport (Child's Ballads, VI. 117). The tiger-hearted man. by force carried me through a long entry to the fore -door. Richardson , Sir Charles Grand is on, I. 248. fore-elder (för'el"dėr), n . [= Dan. forældre = Sw. föräldrar , parents; as fore -1 + elder1 , n.] An ancestor. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Mr. Thomas Graham, of Be an lands, Irthington, now in his sixty-ninth year,.. whose fore - elders, alternating all the way down as Thomas and David, have owned Bean lands since 1603. N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 184. When we read in history of a brave deed done by an English man seven centuries since or more, we may say with confidence it was done by one of our fore -elders. Pop. Sci . Mo., XXVIII. 378. fore-end (for'end), n. The early or fore part of anything. [Properly written as two words.] This rock and these demesnes have been my world; Where I have liv'd at honest freedom, paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore - end of my time. Shak ., Cymbeline, iii. 3. Gude-day to ye, cummer, and mony ane o' them. I will be back about the fore - end o' har'st, and I trust to find ye baith haill and fere. Scott , Antiquary, xxvii. See forfairn. [