Definition of before

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Before (adv.) On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear..

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Foretaste :: Foretaste (v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
Dogshore :: Dogshore (n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.
Fancy :: Fancy (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination..
Premunite :: Premunite (v. t.) To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection.
Prospective :: Prospective (n.) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect..
Yesterday :: Yesterday (n.) The day last past; the day next before the present.
Proteranthous :: Proteranthous (a.) Having flowers appearing before the leaves; -- said of certain plants.
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety..
Theretofore :: Theretofore (adv.) Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.
Foredoom :: Foredoom (v. t.) To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
Upbraid :: Upbraid (v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed..
Preoccupancy :: Preoccupancy (n.) The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land..
Preadamitic :: Preadamitic (a.) Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods..
Superfete :: Superfetation (n.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation..
Preindispose :: Preindispose (v. t.) To render indisposed beforehand.
Callus :: Callus (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets..
Presignify :: Presignify (v. t.) To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
Parasceve :: Parasceve (n.) Among the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath..
Benting Time :: Benting time () The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe..
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
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