adv. and a. Now rare. [STRAIGHT adv. 7 b.] A. adv.
1. Directly in front or onwards.
1530. Palsgr., 827/1. Strayght forthe afore, tout droyt deuant.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, I. Post. ii. 5 b. To produce a right line finite, straight forth continually.
c. 1590. Marlowe, Faustus, 813 (1604), D 1 b. The streetes straight forth, and pau’d with finest bricke.
1601. Holland, Pliny, VI. xvii. I. 124. And this part of the Orientall Indians, which lieth directly streight forth,… containeth 1875 miles.
1830. J. Wright, Retrospect, I. 27.
| Straightforth before us rolls the pleasing past, | |
| And life’s first lovely visions gild our last. |
1850. Hawthorne, Scarlet L., x. He seldom, nowadays, looked straightforth at any object.
2. Immediately, at once.
1577. Grange, Golden Aphrod., C iv. Who (obeying hir heste) straightfoorth ascended to the Mount Pernassus.
1590. Spenser, Muiop., 325. She smote the ground, the which streight foorth did yield A fruitfull Olyue tree.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., iii. (1858), 41. I quitted the dame’s school…; and was transferred straightforth to the grammar school of the parish.
† B. adj. Straight-shaped. Obs.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 30. The Almonde tree in Greeke is called Amygdalè, in Latine Nux longa, a long and straight forth kinde of Nutte.
