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third-person singular simple present forelies, present participle forelying, simple past forelay, past participle forelain
(obsolete) To lie in front. quotations
Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie