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fore-handed
/fɔːˈhandɪd/
adj 5adv 1
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4ADJ.
childish, gamby, left, right, soon
VERB + FORE-HANDED
given, miss, strike
FORE-HANDED + NOUN
', amer, madam, mechanic, nanny
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adj
1
Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent.
His unconscious requirement waas that this also must be reasonable; if it were not, he would accept the portions that were reasonable and reject the others as now too childish for his fore-handed American brain.
The “fore-handed mechanic,” who has the decision to resist the purchase of any coveted article until he has the money to pay for it, finds no trouble, when business reverses come upon a community, in deciding to take in sail while the storm is yet in the distance.
2
Wealthy.
"You mean to say that because I work hard and get a little fore-handed I ought to take a lot of shiftless folks and teach them to be lazy and dependent on me?"
The young man approaching us, with long temple-locks, cane and other appurtenances of dandyism, is the son of a plain, honest citizen who, as our country friends say, is fore-handed, or well to do in the world
3
Executed with a forehand stroke.
A training device for tactually indicating to a player whether the player's hand has properly gripped the handle of a racket for forehanded play and for backhanded play
Barry's fore-handed strokes were very effective, while Moon's back-handers were at times brilliant.
4
Paid or executed in advance.
Concurrence in the conclusion that if the law of hypothec be repealed the landlords will resort to fore-handed rents, as a necessary security
People are being sued for rent, and, while legally they may be in arrear, in actual fact they are not in arrear, because they are being sued for fore-handed rent, sometimes as much as a quarter in advance.
5
Pertaining to the forequarters of a horse.
To this tribe we may refer a little fore-handed animal, of the island of Ceylon, which M. Buffon calls the Lori ; very remarkable for the singularity of its figure.
No matter how lacking he may be in other portions of his contour, this fore-handed formation and action are absolute prerequisites.
adv
1
With a forehand stroke.
This blow should be given fore-handed, as soon as the colt has quitted the wall.
It should be delivered back-handed from the right and fore-handed from the left court.
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His unconscious requirement waas that this also must be reasonable; if it were not, he would accept the portions that were reasonable and reject the others as now too childish for his fore-handed Amer
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The “fore-handed mechanic,” who has the decision to resist the purchase of any coveted article until he has the money to pay for it, finds no trouble, when business reverses come upon a community, in
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“Fore-handed !' Miss Nanny, fore-handed!” said Madam Gamby, plying her shears, which snapped off the cloth very much as their owner did her words. "I never was one of your after-dinner folks. This kin
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This blow should be given fore-handed, as soon as the colt has quitted the wall.
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It should be delivered back-handed from the right and fore-handed from the left court.
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I'll tell you, madam, to have your hunting-sword both right sharp and double-edged, that you may strike either fore-handed or back-handed, as you see reason, for a hurt with a buck's horn is a perilou
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