forelie

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ lie.

Verb

forelie (third-person singular simple present forelies, present participle forelying, simple past forelay, past participle forelain)

1. (obsolete) To lie in front.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps […]