FORAM'INOUS, adjective [Latin foramen, a hole, from foro, to bore.] Full of holes; perforated in many places; porous. [Little used.] FOR, as a prefix to verbs, has usually the force of a negative or privative, denoting against, that is, before, or away, aside.
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