[f. FORE adv. and prep.]
† 1. The previous night. Obs.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 66.
| And I that in forenight was with no weapon agasted, | |
| And litel esteemed thee swarms of Greekish asemblye | |
| Now shiuer at shaddows, eeche pipling puf doth amaze me. |
2. Sc. The evening, the interval between twilight and bedtime.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IX. vi. 63.
| And als the lykly ȝong child, Serranus, | |
| That all the fornycht in ryot and in play | |
| Had spendit as he lyst. |
1810. Cromek’s Rem. Nithsdale Song, 299. We kent nae but it was drunken fowk riding to the fair, i’ the fore night.
1865. G. Macdonald, A. Forbes, I. xvi. 139. The sun set now between two and three o’clock, and there were long forenights to favour the plot.
