forelie

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verb

To lie in front.

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Meanings

verbforelie (third-person singular simple present forelies, present participle forelying, simple past forelay, past participle forelain)

present singular third person forelies · participle present forelying · past forelay · participle past forelain

  1. obsoleteTo lie in front.

    Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From fore- + lie.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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