To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute. / (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement. / (figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).

Misspelling of before.

(cricket) Describing the way of getting out in which the ball would have hit the batsman's wicket, but hits the batsman's legs or more rarely another part of the batsman's body without first hitting the bat or a hand holding the bat.

(cricket) An instance of a batsman being out due to the leg before wicket law.

(literally) Having living quarters in the forecastle / Describing seamen rather than officers

(idiomatic) To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential.

At an earlier or preceding time.

(obsolete) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. / (archaic, often followed by with) In a state of anticipation or preoccupation.

(transitive) to kneel in front of someone or something, especially in order to worship or supplicate

One should not depend upon a favorable (and typically overoptimistic) outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur.