fore edge
    n 1: the part of a book that faces inward when the book is
         shelved; the part opposite the spine [syn: fore edge,
         foredge]

Fore \Fore\ (f[=o]r), a. [See Fore, adv.]
   Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front;
   being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance;
   preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed
   to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the
   fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
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         The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is
         directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey.
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   Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition.
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   Fore bay, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a
      water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.
      

   Fore body (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the
      largest cross-section, distinguished from middle body
      and after body.

   Fore boot, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for
      stowing baggage, etc.

   Fore bow, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight.

   Fore cabin, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually
      with inferior accommodations.

   Fore carriage.
   (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled
       vehicle.
   (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam.

   Fore course (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of
      a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under
      Sail.

   Fore door. Same as Front door.

   Fore edge, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc.
      

   Fore elder, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.]

   Fore end.
   (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part;
       the beginning.
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             I have . . . paid
             More pious debts to heaven, than in all
             The fore end of my time.             --Shak.
   (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward
       of the trigger guard, or breech frame.

   Fore girth, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a
      martingale.

   Fore hammer, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in
      time, with the hand hammer.

   Fore leg, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or
      multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc.

   Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the
      portion of the hold which is farthest forward.

   Fore piece, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of
      a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress.

   Fore plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a
      jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight.

   Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales.

   Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is
      gathered.

   Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the
      space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets.

   Fore shore.
   (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of
       the surf.
   (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a
       breakwater. --Knight.
   (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks.
       

   Fore sight, that one of the two sights of a gun which is
      near the muzzle.

   Fore tackle (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship.
      

   Fore topmast. (Naut.) See Fore-topmast, in the
      Vocabulary.

   Fore wind, a favorable wind. [Obs.]
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            Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne.
                                                  --Sandys.

   Fore world, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey.
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