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forelends

forelends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forelend.

Meaning of forelend

Verb

forelend (third-person singular simple present forelends, present participle forelending, simple past and past participle forelent)

  1. (archaic, transitive) to lend in advance
    • As if that life to losse they had forelent1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about forelends

What is forelends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Forelends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forelend.

Words near forelends in the dictionary

  1. foreleg
  2. forelegged
  3. forelegs
  4. forelend
  5. forelending
  6. forelends
  7. forelent
  8. forelet
  9. forelets
  10. foreletting
  11. forelevel

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