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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.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

To forestall. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.

that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.

o hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart. "This vile purpose to prevent." Shak. Perhaps forestalling night prevented them. Milton.

One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another. [Obs.] Bacon.

To forestall; to anticipitate. Having This not to be stall'd by my report. Massinger.