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Webster 1913 Edition


Foreright

Fore′rightˊ

,
Adj.
Ready; directly forward; going before.
[Obs.]
“A foreright wind.”
Chapman.

Fore′rightˊ

,
adv.
Right forward; onward.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Foreright

FO'RERIGHT

,
Adj.
Ready; forward; quick.

FO'RERIGHT

,
adv.
Right forward; onward.

Definition 2024


foreright

foreright

English

Adjective

foreright (comparative more foreright, superlative most foreright)

  1. (archaic) ready, directly forward, going before
    • Chapman
      A foreright wind.

Adverb

foreright (comparative more foreright, superlative most foreright)

  1. (archaic) right forward, onward
    • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 5
      my hips being borne up, and my thighs at their utmost extension, the gleamy warmth that shot from it made him feel that he was at the mouth of the indraught, and driving foreright, the powerfully divided lips of that pleasure-thirsty channel receiv'd him.