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foreright

adv

Etymology

From fore + right.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵt-✻ — “to straighten; direct”
  2. inherited from *h₃reǵtom✻
  3. inherited from *rehtą✻ — “a right”
  4. inherited from *reht✻
  5. inherited from riht
  6. inherited from right
  7. compounded as foreright — “fore + right”

Definitions

  1. Directly forwards, straight ahead.

    • [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.

  2. Characterising a wind blowing on the line of one's travel

    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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA