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forelie

forelie verb: to lie in front.

Verb

forelie (third-person singular simple present forelies, present participle forelying, simple past forelay, past participle forelain)

  1. (obsolete) To lie in front.
    • Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of forelie

third-person singular presentforelies
present participleforelying
pastforelay
past participleforelain

Origin of forelie

From fore- + lie.

Questions about forelie

What does forelie mean?
Forelie means to lie in front.
What part of speech is forelie?
Forelie is a verb.
What is the past tense of forelie?
The past tense of forelie is forelay.

Words near forelie in the dictionary

  1. forelet
  2. forelets
  3. foreletting
  4. forelevel
  5. forelevels
  6. forelie
  7. forelies
  8. forelife
  9. forelift
  10. forelifted
  11. forelifting

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