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forelying

forelying is the present participle and gerund of forelie.

Meaning of forelie

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

Questions about forelying

What is forelying the present participle and gerund of?
Forelying is the present participle and gerund of forelie.

Words near forelying in the dictionary

  1. forelove
  2. foreloved
  3. foreloves
  4. foreloving
  5. forels
  6. forelying
  7. foremade
  8. foremake
  9. foremakes
  10. foremaking
  11. foreman

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