Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The front or upper side or part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The front side.
- noun Same as
foreshore .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.
- noun The outside or external covering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
front orfore part of anything; frontface of a thing. - noun The outside or external covering.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was thus, with the light being on the foreside of the sail, that I saw a small hole a little below the foot-rope, through which a ray of the light shone.
The Ghost Pirates 2007
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Vpon the foreside of the vessell, the representation of _Iupiter_, holding in his right hande a glistering sword, of the vayne of the
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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An altar standing vpon goates feete, with a burning fire aloft, on the foreside whereof there was also an eie, and a vulture.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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It was found that the customhouse rule then in effect measured length between perpendiculars above the upper deck, from "foreside of the main stem" to the "after side of the sternpost."
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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It is formed in the shape of the hull of the vessel, and as the partial balance of the lower foreside gradually reduces the strains, the rudder head may be made of very great service.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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And vpon euery front or foreside, was grauen a circle, and ouer one circle a Greeke Letter, Ο. ouer another, a Letter Ω. and ouer the third, a Greeke Ν.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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It was thus, with the light being on the foreside of the sail, that I saw a small hole a little below the foot-rope, through which a ray of the light shone.
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Clambering over the precious pile in the middle, they crouched low on the foreside of the mast and groped under the half-deck.
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The counterfeits are wholly done from a copper-plate, the back as well as the foreside; the true bills are printed from common types, in the common printing-press.
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They made a great hubbub amongst themselves, and whenever the old man showed his bald head on the foreside of the bridge, they would all leave off jawing and look at him from below.
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