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foreside

foreside noun: the front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.

Noun

foreside (plural foresides)

  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 the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you...1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17
    • 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 polarized, with slight electromagnetic charges on its foreside and aft.2007 July 10, Natalie Angier, “Small, Yes, but Mighty: The Molecule Called Water”, in New York Times
  2. The outside or external covering.
    • Now when these Counterfeits were thus uncased
      Out of the foreside of their forgerie1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of foreside

pluralforesides

Origin of foreside

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

Words formed from foreside

Questions about foreside

What does foreside mean?
Foreside means the front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.
What part of speech is foreside?
Foreside is a noun.
What is the plural of foreside?
The plural of foreside is foresides.

Words near foreside in the dictionary

  1. foreshowers
  2. foreshowing
  3. foreshowings
  4. foreshown
  5. foreshows
  6. foreside
  7. foresides
  8. foresight
  9. foresighted
  10. foresightedly
  11. foresightedness

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