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  • English Word Forewish Definition To wish beforehand.
  • English Word Forewiste Definition of Forewite
  • English Word Forewisten Definition of Forewite
  • English Word Forewit Definition A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
  • English Word Forewit Definition Foresight; prudence.
  • English Word Forewite Definition To foreknow.
  • English Word Forewiten Definition of Forewite
  • English Word Forewiting Definition of Forewite
  • English Word Forewoman Definition A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
  • English Word Forewomen Definition of Forewoman
  • English Word Foreword Definition A preface.
  • English Word Foreworn Definition Worn out; wasted; used up.
  • English Word Forewost Definition of Forewite
  • English Word Forewot Definition of Forewite
  • English Word Forewot Definition pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite.
  • English Word Foreyard Definition The lowermost yard on the foremast.
  • English Word Forfalture Definition Forfeiture.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition Injury; wrong; mischief.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition To fail to keep an obligation.
  • English Word Forfeit Definition In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
  • English Word Forfeited Definition of Forfeit
  • English Word Forfeiter Definition One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
  • English Word Forfeiting Definition of Forfeit
  • English Word Forfeiture Definition The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.
  • English Word Forfeiture Definition That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.