foreside

plural foresides

1. The front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.

   Because of water’s atomic architecture, the tendency of its comparatively forceful oxygen centerpiece to cling greedily to electrons as it consorts with its two meeker hydrogen mates, the entire molecule ends up polarized, with slight electromagnetic charges on its foreside and aft.

   2007 July 10, Natalie Angier, “Small, Yes, but Mighty: The Molecule Called Water”, in New York Times

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   An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.

   1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17

2. The outside or external covering.

   Now when these Counterfeits were thus uncased Out of the foreside of their forgerie

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC