Definition of Foriegn
For"eign (?), a. [OE. forein, F.
forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras,
foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores
doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose,
Forfeit, Forest, Forum.] 1.
Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign
country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds."
Milton.
2. Not native or belonging to a certain
country; born in or belonging to another country, nation,
sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language;
foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers."
Atterbury.
Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.
Milton.
3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging;
not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not
harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or
from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to
one's nature.
This design is not foreign from some people's
thoughts. Swift.
4. Held at a distance; excluded;
exiled. [Obs.]
Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved
him,
That he ran mad and died. Shak.
Foreign attachment (Law), a process
by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for
the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an
attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands
of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others
factorizing, and in others garnishee process.
Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign
bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in
another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and
payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several
other points of view, the different States of the United States are
foreign to each other. See Exchange, n.,
4. Kent. Story. -- Foreign body
(Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body
where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. -
- Foreign office, that department of the
government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in
foreign countries.
Syn. -- Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant;
extraneous; extrinsic.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- From a different country.
foreign students
- Belonging to a different culture.
Eating with chopsticks was a foreign concept to him
- Of an object, etc, in a place where it does not belong.
foreign body
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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