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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton.

One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.

To forestall. [Obs.] Spenser.

A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.

Same as Hematocrystallin.

A stalk of hay.

That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.

See Hemoglobin.

Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.

Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.

To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott.

The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish. On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation. Ayliffe.

The act of installing; installation. Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton.

Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles.

ce where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.

Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.