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"sense": "former; occurring earlier",
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"sense": "former; occurring earlier",
"word": "edellinen"
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"word": "tidigare"
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"code": "sv",
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"roman": "preden",
"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
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"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
"word": "etu-"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
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"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nosovój",
"sense": "forward; at or toward the front",
"word": "носово́й"
}
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"word": "ファー"
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"ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "front",
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"word": "voorkant"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "front",
"word": "etuosa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "front",
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"sense": "front",
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"feminine"
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"word": "fronte"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "of a ship",
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"masculine"
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"word": "back and fore"
},
{
"word": "first"
},
{
"word": "fore-and-aft"
},
{
"word": "fore and aft"
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{
"word": "fore-and-aft cap"
},
{
"word": "fore-and-after"
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{
"word": "fore and aft rig"
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{
"word": "fore-and-aft-rigged"
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{
"word": "foreanent"
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{
"word": "fore arm"
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{
"word": "forecheck"
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{
"word": "foredraft"
},
{
"word": "fore edge"
},
{
"word": "forehatch"
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{
"word": "forehead"
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{
"word": "foreline"
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{
"word": "foremast"
},
{
"word": "foremost"
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{
"word": "forereef"
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{
"word": "foreright"
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{
"word": "foreshore"
},
{
"word": "foreward"
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{
"word": "fore wing"
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{
"word": "to the fore"
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{
"word": "wherefor"
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],
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"ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:",
"text": "The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.",
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"Formerly; previously; afore."
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"(obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore."
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}
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