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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1434-1533, 1599, 1656-1664
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For(e)-, Foir-front, n. Also: foyr-frownt, -frount, foir-frount, -froont, forfrunt. [e.m.E. forefront (1548). Earlier in Sc. use than Eng.] The fore part or front (of anything).(a) ?1438 Alex. i. 2516.
The king … and Tholomere In the fore front fechtand were 1434 Liber Coll. Glasg. 249.
The half of the calse befor the forfront of the said akyr 1471 Peebles B. Rec. 167.
That ilk man kep nychburhed in ȝardyn, princepaly forfrunt and hedyard 1488 Dunferm. B. Rec. i.
The forsaidis land wyth the forsaid forfront and yarde 1509 Reg. Privy S. I. 281/2.
The said volt … haifand the lenth of the forefront of the said tenement 1513 Doug. xi. ix. 14.
The Troiane barnage … that did spreid In forfront al the large feldis on breid1533 Boece iii. xvii. 116.
Quhen the vantgarde and vtheris fechtaris in forefront war ourethrawin(b) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 831.
He gert thaim … a stark barres mak, At a foyr frount 1476 Ayr Friars Pr. Chart. 54.
With four and twenty elln of lenth on the baksyde of his foir hous … haldand the breid of the foir front 1529 Red Bk. Grandtully I. 70.
The said landis … fra the wattyr of Tay to the foirfront of the hill 1531 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts IV. 33.
George Burell gaef staet off twa ruid of land in foyrfrownt 1599 Ib. x. 74.
The pece ground … to be in foir front tuentie ane ellis 1656 Ayr Charters 197.
All the foirfrontis and gavellis [of the pews to be] of wanscott 1664 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 36.
To sklait the easing dropp in the foir front
