foreright

English edit

From fore +‎ right.

foreright (comparative more foreright, superlative most foreright)

(obsolete) Directly forwards, straight ahead.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:
  [H]alf of them […] look'd upward, and side-ways, or foreright, and backward, which variety I have not found in any other small Fly.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
  my hips being borne up, and my thighs at their utmost extension, the gleamy warmth that shot from it made him feel that he was at the mouth of the indraught, and driving foreright, the powerfully divided lips of that pleasure-thirsty channel receiv'd him.

foreright (comparative more foreright, superlative most foreright)

(obsolete) Characterising a wind blowing on the line of one's travel; favourable.
- 1605, George Chapman, Eastward Hoe, III.2:
  Ther's a foreright winde continuall wafts vs till we come at Virginia.