foreday (ford a)

That part of a day which comes between breakfast-time and noon; forenoon. Jamie son. [Scotch.] The sett in moon shone even in their faces, and he saw them as weel as it had been foreday. Hogg , Brownie, i. 13. fore days (for'dāz), adv . 1. Toward noon.-2. Toward evening. [Prov. Eng. in both uses.] fore dealt, n. [Early mod. E. foredele ; for dele (= D. voordeel = LG. vortel = G. vortheil = Sw. fördel = Dan. fordel ), advantage, benefit; fore -1 + deall .] Advantage; benefit. To one demaunding what a wantage he had by his philosophie, "Though nothing els," saied he, "yet at lestwise this foredele I haue, that I am readie prepared to al maner fortune, good or badde." J. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 157. fore-deck (for'dek), n . Naut . , the forward part of the spar-deck. mine beforehand; predetermine. Bp. Hopkins. foredisposet (for-dis-poz'), v. t. To dispose or bestow beforehand; predispose. King James had by promise fore disposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller . foredol (for-dö'), v. t.; pret. foredid, pp. fore done, ppr. foredoing. [ fore -1 + dol.] To do beforehand; perform or perpetrate previously. And then behoveth us to take upon us sharp penance, continuing therein, for to obtain of the Lord forgivne of our foredone sins, and grace to abstain us hereafter from sin. Bp. Bale, Exam. of W. Thorpe.