foreshoot

The leading shoot.

When we consider the era in which Plato lived, before the Revelation of Christ had shed the sunbeams of its life and light upon the world, seeing only a foreshoot of the glorious day about to open, and conjecturing obscurely as to the true relationship and destiny of men, we are astonished at the beauty and justice of his sentiments, and his deep devotion to the laws of Eternal Order and Duty.

Yet they offer no certain guarantees, since just one more all-out war could possibly so weaken the complex and sensitive foreshoot of evolution which is human society that the process might not be able to recover and go on to realize its unimaginable potentialities.

An overhang created by an upper level cantilevered over the lower level of a barn; forebay.

The sketch inclosed is for a barn 42 x 34 feet with 8 feet foreshoot and the same back shed.

When they drove along under the "foreshoot" the horse lurched sideways and the front wheel caught behind a fence post.

To go too far forward; overshoot.

Instantly he gave the rein to his horse, and with panting speed foreshot his little army : in a moment after his beloved Fanny sprang into his arms.

The form of the barrel will, in most cases, compel the rope to "fleet" itself, that is, work upward, as it winds on, maintaining nearly an equal leverage in work, and if it should by accident do this suddenly, or as the seamen say, surge upwards, the men cannot be thrown down by the foreshooting and recoil of the bars they are working with, so that they work with an increased confidence, that greatly facilitates their labor; and all this is done without carrying the spindle through the deck, as has been the common practice.