foresound

plural foresounds · alternative fore-sound

1. a sound made in advance

   Then of a sudden, without any foresounds, the scratching began again.

   1900, Henry Thew Stephenson, Patroon Van Volkenberg

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   In Great Britain, on the contrary, the fore-sound is perceptible to four, and the aftersound to three, out of every five observers; and these proportions are maintained roughly to considerable distances from the epicentre.

   2013, Charles Davison, A Study Of Recent Earthquakes

present singular third person foresounds · participle present foresounding · participle past foresounded · past foresounded · alternative fore-sound

1. transitiveto sound in advance

   Of ash-heaps, in the which ye use Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse; Of crackling laurel, which foresounds A plenteous harvest to your grounds; […]

   1810, John Nott, Robert Herrick, Select poems from the Hesperides