"forenight" meaning in English

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          "text": "“Then I minded the tales my father used to tell me in the winter forenight of Wicked Wat Fergus of Craignesslin, how he used to rise from his bed and blow his horn and ride off to the Whig-hunting",
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          "ref": "1909, Harold Edward Bindloss, “Chapter 1”, in The Greater Power",
          "text": "the rancher, who has sheep to lose, sits shivering in his log house through the long forenights with a Marlin rifle handy, while the famished timber wolves prowl about his clearing.",
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        "(Scotland) The evening time, between twilight and bedtime."
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