Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever..
Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A predecessor; an ancestor.
Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
Runner :: Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil..
Runner :: Runner (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
Runner :: Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed..
Runner :: Runner (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..