Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad
and died.
Shak.
Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign
or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from
him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits
of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States
trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent.
Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and
payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one
drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in
several other points of view, the different States of the United States
are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story. -- Foreign
body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it
does not belong, and usually introduced from without. - - Foreign
office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has
charge British interests in foreign countries.
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Syn. -- Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous;
extrinsic.
For"eign*er (?), n. A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a
foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under
consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts.
Denham.
Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater
luster, either to foreigners or subjects.
Swift.
For"eign*ism (?), n. Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people;
a foreign idiom or custom.
It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so- called liberal
professions distigured by foreignisms.
Fitzed. Hall.
For"eign*ness, n. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of
relation or appropriateness.
Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring
to set me right.
Locke.
A foreignness of complexion.
G. Eliot.
For"ein (?), a. Foreign. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fore*judge" (?), v. t. [Fore + judge.] To judge beforehand, or before
hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
Fore*judge", v. t. [For forjudge, fr. F. forjuger; OF. fors outside,
except + F. juger to judge.] (O. Eng. Law) To expel from court for some
offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out
of a thing by the judgment of a court. Burrill.
Fore*judg"er (?), n. (Eng. Law) A judgment by which one is deprived or
put out of a right or thing in question.
Fore*judg"ment (?), n. Prejudgment. [Obs.] Spenser.
Fore*know" (?), v. t. [imp. Foreknew (?); p. p. Foreknown (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Foreknowing.] To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
Who would the miseries of man foreknow?
Dryden.
Fore*know"a*ble (?), a. That may be foreknown. Dr. H. More.
Fore*know"er (?), n. One who foreknows.
Fore*know"ing*ly, adv. With foreknowledge.
He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life.
Jer. Taylor.
Fore*knowl"edge (?), n. Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of
whatever is to happen; prescience.
If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.
Milton.
For"el (?), n. [OE. forelcase, sheath, OF. forel, fourel, F. fourreau,
LL. forellus, fr. OF. forre, fuerre, sheath, case, of German origin;
cf. OHG. fuotar, akin to Goth. fdr; prob. not the same word as E.
fodder food. Cf. Fur, Fodder food.] A kind of parchment for book
covers. See Forrill.
For"el, v. t. To bind with a forel. [R.] Fuller.
Fore"land` (?), n. 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North
and South Foreland in Kent, England.
2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
Farrow.
3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside
of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their
force. Knight.
Fore*lay" (?), v. t. 1. To lay down beforehand.
These grounds being forelaid and understood.
Mede.