red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky in the morn, sailors forlorn
Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
forlorn
UK /fəˈlɔːn/ US /fɚˈlɔɹn/
adj 3noun 2
Collocations
6(adj.)
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem, sound, stand
She felt forlorn after her best friend moved to another country.
become
ADV
very
quite, utterly
The old dog sat quite forlorn in the empty house after his family moved away.
almost | rather, somewhat
Definitions
adj
1
Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
2
Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
For here forlorn and loſt I tread, / With fainting ſteps and ſlow; / Where wilds immeaſurably ſpread, / Seem lengthening as I go.
This is the Maiden all forlorn, That milked the Cow with the crumpled Horn[.]
3
Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.
To begin therefore with Traditions, which is your forlorn hope that in the first place we are to set upon: this must I needs tell you before we begin, that you much mistake the matter, if you think that traditions of all sorts promiscuously are struck at by our religion.
Well! It is a forlorn hope at the best, and not much the forlorner for being delayed till dark.
noun
1
A forlorn hope.
The Regiment being drawn up into the former Figure, they may proceed to Firings upon it, firſt let the Forlorns fire five or six times over, being commanded by the eldeſt Captains Lieutenant, who is to be aſſiſted by a couple of able Serjeants; after let him wheel off to the right and left, and bring them down in the Reer of the Pikes. Then let the ſecond Captains Lieutenant being aſſiſted by two Serjeants lead up the reſerves by the out-ſide of the Pikes, at ſuch time when the Forlorns begin to come off, […]
[…] I ordered the forlorns to advance and to march, at their open order, towards the upland, and by this time the tide was upon the ground wee ſtood on: The forlorn were no ſooner advanced a few rods, before there was firing on both ſides; […]
2
A member of a forlorn hope.
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red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morn, sailors forlorn
Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
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For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
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Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
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More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the
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The Regiment being drawn up into the former Figure, they may proceed to Firings upon it, firſt let the Forlorns fire five or six times over, being commanded by the eldeſt Captains Lieutenant, who is t
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[…] I ordered the forlorns to advance and to march, at their open order, towards the upland, and by this time the tide was upon the ground wee ſtood on: The forlorn were no ſooner advanced a few rods,
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I was this day in the van, and our forlorn having entered Huntingdon without any great reſiſtance till they came to the bridge, finding it barricaded, they ſent me word; I cauſed the troops to halt, a
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