What is "for-"

Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day.
--Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.
--Tennyson.

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

   The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
   --Goldsmith.

   [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
   --Spenser.

Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day.
--Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.
--Tennyson.

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

   The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
   --Goldsmith.

   [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
   --Spenser.

hard-on \hard-on\ n. An erect penis; a penile erection. [slang or vulgar]

Syn: erection.

Brin \Brin\, n. [F.] One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
--Knight.

Osier \O"sier\, n. [F. osier: cf. Prov. F. oisis, Armor. ozil, aozil, Gr. ?, ?, ?, L. vitex, and E. withy.] (Bot.)

1. A kind of willow ( Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.

2. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants. The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream. --Shak. Osier bed, or Osier holt, a place where willows are grown for basket making. [Eng.] Red osier.

   1. A kind of willow with reddish twigs ( Salix rubra).

   2. An American shrub ( Cornus stolonifera) which has slender red branches; -- also called osier cornel.

Withy \With"y\, n.; pl. Withies. [OE. withe, wipi, AS. w[=i]?ig a willow, willow twig; akin to G. weide willow, OHG. w[=i]da, Icel. v[=i]?ja, a withy, Sw. vide a willow twig, Dan. vidie a willow, osier, Gr. ?, and probably to L. vitis a vine, viere to plait, Russ. vite. [root]14

1. Cf. Wine, Withe.] 1. (Bot.) The osier willow ( Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a) .

2. A withe. See Withe, 1.

Paguma \Pa*gu"ma\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.

For- \For-\ [AS. for-; akin to D. & G. ver-, OHG. fir-, Icel. for-, Goth. fra-, cf. Skr. par[=a]- away, Gr. ? beside, and E. far, adj. Cf. Fret to rub.] A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

1809, from encircle + -ment.

also sub-par, 1896, from sub- + par.

prefix usually meaning "away, opposite, completely," from Old English for-, indicating loss or destruction, but in other cases completion, and used as well with intensive or pejorative force, from Proto-Germanic *fur "before, in" (cognates: Old Norse for-, Swedish för-, Dutch ver-, Old High German fir-, German ver-); from PIE *pr-, from root *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).\n\nIn verbs the prefix denotes

1. intensive or completive action or process, or

2. action that miscarries, turns out for the worse, results in failure, or produces adverse or opposite results. In many verbs the prefix exhibits both meanings, and the verbs frequently have secondary and figurative meanings or are synonymous with the simplex.

   [Middle English Dictionary]

   \nProbably originally in Germanic with a sense of "forward, forth," but it spun out complex sense developments in the historical languages. Disused in Modern English. Ultimately from the same root as fore (adv.). From its use in participles it came to be an intensive prefix of adjectives in Middle English (for example Chaucer's forblak "exceedingly black"), but all these now seem to be obsolete.

n. 1 The act of encircle or the state of being encircled 2 (context military English) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it

n. A folding around something. vb. (present participle of enfold English)

vb. (context idiomatic English) To struggle to think of or remember something.

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2

n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2

n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

alt. (context intransitive English) To lose one's physical or emotional control vb. (context intransitive English) To lose one's physical or emotional control

a. not in agreement, especially in musical pitch

n. (ordinary differential equation English)

alt. (context slang vulgar English) erection of the penis n. (context slang vulgar English) erection of the penis

n. Any arthritis affecting five or more joints, often caused by an autoimmune disorder.

n. One of the radiating sticks of a fan.

a. 1 Of less than a traditional or accepted standard 2 (context golf English) below par 3 (context finance English) Trading a price below face value.

n. (mark-to-market English)

vb. (en-third-person singularhash out)

n. (context zoology English) Any of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus (taxlink Paguma genus noshow=1), resembling weasels.

vb. (context ambitransitive English) to spend a lot of money on something pleasant, but not necessary.

n. (alternative spelling of coho English)

n. (alternative spelling of sulfur works English)

pre. 1 (context no longer productive English) Meaning "far", "away"; "from", "out" e.g. forbid, forget, forsay; forbear, fordeem. 2 (context no longer productive English) Meaning "completely", "to the fullest extent" e.g. fordo; superseded by combinations with "up" in senses where no upward movement is involved, e.g. forgive = ''give up (one's offenses)'', forgather = "gather up", forbeat = "beat up", etc. 3 (context dialectal English) very; excessively.