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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forelie en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + lie.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To lie in front.
    • Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
forelay Tense=Past lexicographic
forelies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
forelain Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forelying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic