Ahead (in space); ~ rider, one who rides ahead of the main body of an army, ?a scout, ?one of the vanguard.

Earlier (in time), preceding, previous; before, previously; beforehand, first, at first: (a) in nouns: ~ auncestres, forefathers; ~ choice, a choice made beforehand; ~ crier, one who announces things to come; ~ sight, foresight; also divine foreknowledge or prescience; ~ thought, forethought, premeditation; (b) in gerunds: ~ having, possessing beforehand; ~ knowing, foreknowledge, prescience; ~ raiing, an arrangement made beforehand; ~ saiing, foretelling; ~ taking, getting prematurely; (c) in verbs: ~ barren, to preclude, prevent; ~ fallen, to fall at first; ~ slen, to kill previously; (d) in ppls.: ~ coming, preceding; ~ conceived, previously formed in the mind; ~ don, previously done; ~ going, preceding; ~ gon, gone before; ~ keping, preventative; ~ sette, established earlier; ~ shewed, shown before, foretold; malice ~ thought, premeditated malice.

At an earlier point in a book, document, etc.; above; preceding: (a) in nouns: ~ thing, something mentioned above; (b) in gerunds: ~ speking, a preface; ~ writing, something written above; (c) in ppls: ~ departed (divided), marked off or distinguished above; ~ except, excepted or exempted by provisions already set forth; ~ named, named above; ~ minded, ~ noted, noted above; ~ put, stated or mentioned above; ~ rehersed, listed or described above; ~ shewed, previously shown or stated; ~ specified, enumerated above.