Definition of before

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Before (adv.) In advance.

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Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine..
Polemoscope :: Polemoscope (n.) An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, / side, opera glass..
Preordain :: Preordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.
Forepromised :: Forepromised (a.) Promised beforehand; preengaged.
Prearrange :: Prearrange (v. t.) To arrange beforehand.
Remitter :: Remitter (n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit..
Intumesce :: Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe..
Lanugo :: Lanugo (n.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth..
Precompose :: Precompose (v. t.) To compose beforehand.
Propaedeutical :: Propaedeutical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand..
Article :: Article (n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article..
Heretofore :: Heretofore (adv.) Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past.
Predesign :: Predesign (v. t.) To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.
Forerun :: Forerun (v. t.) To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
Centenary :: Centenary (n.) A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge..
Prefine :: Prefine (v. t.) To limit beforehand.
Front :: Front (n.) A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house..
Credence :: Credence (n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..
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