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fore | frore |

As a noun fore

is forest .

As a verb frore is

.

fore

English

Etymology 1

A development of the prefix .

Adjective

  • (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
    • the fore part of the day
  • Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
    • the fore end of a wagon
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 23:
    • Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop [...].
    Antonyms
    * (order) latter * (location) aft

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
    • The fore was painted white.
  • * 2002 , Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas :
    • People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.
    Related terms
    * fore-and-aft * foremost * forehead

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
  • (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.
  • (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (fare)

    • Anagrams

    * * * English irregular simple past forms ----

    frore

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
  • * 1818 , (Percy Shelley), The Revolt of Islam , canto 9:
    • We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,
    Expiring in the frore and foggy air.
  • * 1883 , Religion in Europe, historically considered , page 13:
    • For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.
  • * 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad) , XLVI, lines 15-16
    • Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore .
  • * , (Rupert Brooke), Song
    • My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic, rare) (freeze)
  • * , (Mary Howitt), The Sea :
    • And down below all fretted and frore ,