Word Finder - forenoon

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The part of the day from dawn to noon.

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I'll see you tomorrow morning.

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The part of the day between midnight and noon.

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The early part of anything.

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The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught.

It was most frequented in the forenoon, and then only by men.

About 1689 his health, never very strong, began to fail seriously and he gradually withdrew from his public engagements, ceasing his communications to the Royal Society, and advertising his desire to be excused from receiving guests, "unless upon occasions very extraordinary," on Tuesday and Friday forenoon, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.

Next forenoon the pilgrim is free to move about, and towards midday he may if he please hear a sermon.

On the following forenoon we anchored in the Forth.

Having heard causes in the forenoon between eight and eleven, after dinner he sat again to receive petitions.

At KremsmunsterZolss (41) finds a considerable similarity between the diurnal variations in q and in the potential gradient, the hours of the forenoon and afternoon maxima being nearly the same in the two cases.

After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the dust of labor from my person, or smoothed out the last wrinkle which study had made, and for the afternoon was absolutely free.

Mrs. Cummings was taken away to the Sister's hospital this forenoon and I fear she shan't ever return.

Simultaneously the forenoon maximum occurs earlier and the afternoon maximum later in the day.

Watering, which, except during the resting period, should generally be copious, is best done in the forenoon; while syringing should be done early in the morning before the sun becomes too powerful, and late in the afternoon to admit of the foliage drying moderately before night.

In calculating the percentages of forenoon and afternoon occurrences half the entries under noon and midnight were assigned to each half of the day.

After rising he studied for two hours, then lectured other two, and spent the rest of the forenoon, till one, at his desk.

No longer content to pay a flying visit, it was the whole forenoon that he dedicated to his solitary friend.

Higgins dropped in with a double-barreled shotgun early in the forenoon.

All three Paris curves show three peaks, the first and third representing the ordinary forenoon and afternoon maxima.

During the night Augereau and the Guards had arrived, and Ney and Davout were expected on either flank in the forenoon.

During the forenoon a good landing-place was found inside the bay on its northern side, and the contingent of the Toth Division from Mudros disembarked at this point.

Throughout the dry or cool season the wind blows steadily and almost uninterruptedly (except for an hour or so forenoon and afternoon) from the south-east.

The Lord's Supper was observed weekly; and between forenoon and afternoon service every Sunday a love feast was held at which every member was required to be present.

Whilst daylight is the principal cause of the diurnal inequality, it is not the only cause, otherwise there would be as many auroras in the morning (forenoon) as in the evening (afternoon).

A compromise was at last arranged, whereby the friars were to preach in the forenoon and Tausen in the afternoon.