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foreright en · ADJ

Etymology

From fore + right.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Characterising a wind blowing on the line of one's travel; favourable.
    • Ther's a foreright winde continuall wafts vs till we come at Virginia. 1605, George Chapman, Eastward Hoe, III.2:

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foreright en · ADV

Etymology

From fore + right.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Directly forwards, straight ahead.
    • my hips being borne up, and my thighs at their utmost extension, the gleamy warmth that shot from it made him feel that he was at the mouth of the indraught, and driving foreright, the powerfully divided lips of that pleasure-thirsty channel receiv'd him. 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
    • [H]alf of them […] look'd upward, and side-ways, or foreright, and backward, which variety I have not found in any other small Fly. 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:

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