| forestall | 1. 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) 2. To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance. "An ugly serpent which forestalled their way." (Fairfax) "But evermore those damsels did forestall Their furious encounter." (Spenser) "To be forestalled ere we come to fall." (Shak) "Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge." (Rush) 3. To deprive; with of. "All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day!" (Shak) 4. To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Synonym: To anticipate, monopolize, engross. Origin: OE. Forstallen to stop, to obstruct; to stop (goods) on the way to the market by buying them beforehand, from forstal obstruction, AS. Forsteal, foresteall, prop, a placing one's self before another. See Fore, and Stall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| forested areas or land | Any land that is capable of producing or has produced forest growth or, if lacking forest growth, has evidence of a former forest and is not now in other use. (05 Dec 1998) |
| forester | 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game. 2. An inhabitant of a forest. 3. A forest tree. 4. <entomology> A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. Octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. Origin: F. Forestier, LL. Forestarius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forestick | Front stick of a hearth fire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forestier's disease | <disease> A form of degenerative arthritis characteristically associated with flowing calcification along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine and commonly with inflammation (tendinitis) and calcification of the tendons at their attachments points to bone. Because areas of the spine and tendons can become inflamed, antiinflammatory medications (NSAIDs), such ibuprofen, can be helpful in both relieving pain and inflammation. Also called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). (12 Dec 1998) |
| Forestier, Jacques | <person> French rheumatologist, *1890. See: Forestier's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forestomach | A dilation that occasionally occurs in the oesophagus near the stomach. Synonym: forestomach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forestry | The science of developing, caring for, or cultivating forests. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foretaste | 1. To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate. 2. To taste before another. "Foretasted fruit." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| foretoken | To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. "Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood." (Daniel) Origin: AS. Foretacnian; fore + tacnian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forewaters | Colloquialism for the bulging fluid-filled amniotic membrane presenting in front of the foetal head. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forewomen | A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |