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straight forth, ˈstraightforth, adv. and a. Now rare.
[straight adv. 9 b.]
A. adv.
1. Directly in front or onwards.
1530Palsgr. 827/1 Strayght forthe afore, tout droyt deuant. 1570Billingsley Euclid i. Post. ii. 5 b, To produce a right line finite, straight forth continually. c1590Marlowe Faustus 813 (1604) D 1 b, The streetes straight forth, and pau'd with finest bricke. 1601Holland Pliny vi. xvii. I. 124 And this part of the Orientall Indians, which lieth directly streight forth,..containeth 1875 miles. 1830J. Wright Retrospect i. 27 Straightforth before us rolls the pleasing past. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. x, He seldom, nowadays, looked straightforth at any object.
2. Immediately, at once.
1577Grange Golden Aphrod. C iv, Who (obeying hir heste) straightfoorth ascended to the Mount Pernassus. 1590Spenser Muiop. 325 She smote the ground, the which streight foorth did yield A fruitfull Olyue tree. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. iii. (1858) 41, I quitted the dame's school..; and was transferred straightforth to the grammar school of the parish.
†B. adj. Straight-shaped. Obs.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 30 The Almonde tree in Greeke is called Amygdalè, in Latine Nux longa, a long and straight forth kinde of Nutte. |