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forecast(1) (iou)



forecast noun. LME.
[from the verb.]
a. A plan, a plot. LME-M18.
b. A design, a purpose, an aim. M16-L17.
The action or faculty of forecasting; forethought, prudence. Now rare. M16.
Carlyle The doctrine, which Swift, with the keen forecast of genius, dimly anticipated.
A conjectural estimate, based on present indications, of something in the future, esp. of coming weather; a prediction. L17.
C. Lamb A forecast of the wearisome day that lies before me. Observer The previous forecast of no serious gale.