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Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future. Bartram.

Foresighted. [Obs.]

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt. Shak.

See Forslack.

The sleeve below the elbow.

; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.

To foretell; to predict. [Obs.] My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl.

A prediction; also, a preface. [Obs.] Camden. Huloet.

A preface. [Obs.] Sherwood.

Already spent; gone by; past. [Obs.] Shak.

One who rides before; a harbinger. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan. Forest fly. (Zoöl.) (a) One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the family Tabanidæ, which attack both men and beasts. See Horse fly. (b) A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick. -- Forest glade, a grassy space in a forest. Thomson. -- Forest laws…

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C.

A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.

Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.

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.

A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.