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