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单词 foreside
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foresiden.

/ˈfɔːsʌɪd/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s for-.
Etymology: < fore- prefix + side n.1 Compare Dutch voorzijde, German vorseite.
1. The fore part; the front; also, the upper side (of anything). Now rare exc. technical.
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the world > space > relative position > front > [noun]
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fore-piece1788
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fore1888
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > front surface
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c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 161 Þese .vij. ribbis..in þe for~side of a man..have no fastnynge to no boon.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xxvii. 82 Sharp yrons were dressed to the foresyde of the same engyn.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke vii. f. 85v The tables..letted hir to..cast hir self down prostrate on the foresyde, at the fete of Jesus.
1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 311 On lytlye pattlett sett wth pearll on the forsyd.
1643 Particular Relation Action before Cyrencester 8 The Colonell perceiving the garden wall..too high to be entred on the foreside.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 168 The picture..turnes vpon a frame, and shews you both the fore-side of those combatans, and their backsides two.
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations I. iv. 470 They have another Skin..which covers their Back, and a square one to cover their Foreside.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xxix. 105 Overturning it upside-down, and fore-side back.
1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 102 Making the backs of the escape wheel teeth radial and the foresides curved.
figurative.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. iii. sig. O8 When these counterfeits were thus vncased Out of the foreside of their forgerie..All gan to iest and gibe full merilie. View more context for this quotation1656 R. Vines Treat. Lords-supper (1677) 343 There [i.e. at the bottom] lies abundance of self-love, and self-interest, even when there is a good countenance and fore-side.1685 J. Renwick Choice Coll. (1776) xiii. 159 Hills and Vallies..are all written over, backside and fore~side with legible characters of the knowledge of God.
2. The front side or edge.
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the world > space > relative position > front > [noun] > front edge
foreside1679
leading edge1877
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 171 Raiser, is a Board set on edge under the Foreside of a step.
3. attributive.
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a1643 W. Cartwright Lady-errant v. i, in Comedies (1651) sig. e4v This foreside blow Cuts off thrice three, this back-blow thrice three more.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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