foreside

The front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.

Noun

  1. The front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.
    • An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to...
    • Because of water’s atomic architecture, the tendency of its comparatively forceful oxygen centerpiece to cling greedily to electrons as it consorts with its two meeker hydrogen mates, the entire molecule ends up...
  2. The outside or external covering.
    • Now when these Counterfeits were thus uncased Out of the foreside of their forgerie - 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Origin

From Middle English forside, equivalent to fore- + side. Cognate with Dutch voorzijde, German Vorseite, Danish forside.

Forms

foresides

Related

forepart forebody foreship