forestage

The part of a theatre stage in front of the closed curtain.

A preliminary or developmental stage.

The formation of exogenous uric acid is largely within our power; the amount can be diminished by limiting the forestages of uric acid-nucleins and purin derivatives—in the food.

The various foot abnormalities have been found to belong to a series of specific types (I to V), all of which have their forestages in embryonic blebs, the final location of which has proved to be decisive for the type of abnormality.

Forecastle.

Ships of Forecastle were ships with Forestages, and carried about 150 men each ; they were the largest ships then in use.

This account differs from that in the Cottonian Roll, as well as from that given by Hackluyt, which are both 14,956. In neither of these, however, is any mention of the ships of forstage, the barges, ballengers, or victuallers.

To block so that someone or something appears in the forestage.

There is subtle thought, even profound thought, not so much in the working out of the plots as in the selection and forestaging of such humorous situations as make the plots work themselves out.

Yet, despite the invocation of cultural practices in images, the facade setting preventing the spectators' attention from wandering to an outside environment, prevented spectators from seeing the action as a natural aspect of a total environment by forestaging the action as a construct in response to particular situations.

To make prominent; to bring into focus.

Not only was Binodlal one of the first to forestage sontap (“heat”) as the key element in fevers, but he was also one of the first to try to understand sontap as "motion."

It forestages the insistent presence of patterns of centre/periphery relations within Chicanidad, or rather the presence of multi-tier Chicanidades, with substantial disparities regarding the needs and problems of their members, increasing the gap between the centred and the peripheral ones.

A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.

A service paid by foresters to the king.