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To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

To lose by sloth or negligence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off. [Obs.] Bacon.

To lsoe by idleness or slotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

To forbid; to prohibit. Shak.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

To forestall. [Obs.] Spenser.

A forester. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Distracted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [Obs.] P. Sidney.

upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak.

One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.

Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. [Obs.] Spenser.

imp. of Forswear.

p. p. of Forswear.

State of being forsworn. [R.]

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.…

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.