Being before in place; fore; first; foremost.Being or happening before in time; preceding another or something else in order of time; prior.Past; especially, long past; ancient.Preceding or going before in a series; antecedent in order of thought, of action, etc.: specifically applied to the antecedent one of two things, or of two parts or divisions of anything.Bygone.n. A predecessor.n. One who forms, fashions, creates, or makes; a creator.n. Specifically, a pattern in or upon which anything is shaped, as a piece of wood used for shaping cartridges and gun-wads; any mechanism contributing to give shape to an article in process of manufacture.n. One of a number of appliances and machines used in bending and shaping sheet-metal into tubes, cylinders, boxes, and other forms.n. The templet used for the cutting of gear-teeth; the guide used for giving desired motion to the cutter when forming or cutting irregularly shaped pieces in a profiling-machine.n. In electricity, a frame upon which the coils of certain types of armatures and transformers are wound.