a. Goīng before; foregoing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae.
Syn. -- family Coregonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Coregonidae; whitefishes.
Syn. -- genus Coregonus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. Forewent 2; p. p. Foregone p. pr. & vb. n. Foregoing. ] [ See Forgo. ] 1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated. [ 1913 Webster ]

All my patrimony,
If need be, I am ready to forego. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with Forego, to go before. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. foregān; fore + gān to go; akin to G. vorgehen to go before, precede. See Go, v. i. ] To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

For which the very mother's face forewent
The mother's special patience. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foregone conclusion, a conclusion which has preceded argument or examination; a predetermined conclusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor; a progenitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymologically forgoer. ] One who forbears to enjoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. past; -- used of time; as, foregone summers. Contrassted to present.
Syn. -- bygone, bypast, departed, gone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An inevitable outcome; a certain result; a certainty. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ Prob. fr, It. Greco Greek, or Sp. Griego, or Pg. Grego. ] A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [ Written also griego. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Gregorianus, fr. Gregorius Gregory, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. grégorien. ] Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs. See Gregorian year (below). --
Gregorian chant (Mus.), plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I. (called “the Great”) in the 6th century. --
Gregorian modes, the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc. --
Gregorian telescope (Opt.), a form of reflecting telescope, named from Prof. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, who perfected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it. --
Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar. Thus, every year, of the current reckoning, which is divisible by 4, except those divisible by 100 and not by 400, has 366 days; all other years have 365 days. See Bissextile, and Note under Style, n., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. Pope Gregory XIII., born 1572, died 1585, the pope who introduced the modern calendar.
Syn. -- Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncompagni. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Pope Gregory I., born circa 540, died 604; the pope for whom Gregorian chants were named.
Syn. -- Gregory I, Saint Gregory I, Gregory the Great. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Rocketry) A substance which can form one of a pair of hypergolic substances. See hypergolic. [ PJC ]

a. (Rocketry) Igniting spontaneously when mixed together; -- used of pairs of substances which react violently with evolution of heat when mixed, as for example hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide. Such combinations of substances are convenient for use in liquid-fueled rockets, as they do not require a source of ignition. [ PJC ]

(Bot.) An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A resident of Oregon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. paregoricus, Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; addressing, encouraging, soothing; para` beside + &unr_; an assembly: cf. F. parégorique. See Allegory. ] Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. regorder; re- + gorger to gorge. Cf. Regurgitate. ] 1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swallow again; to swallow back. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]