forelay

answer Answers

ProphetesAI is thinking...

MindMap

Loading...

Sources

1
forelay
forelay, v. (fɔəˈleɪ) [f. fore- prefix + lay v.] 1. trans. To lie in wait for, waylay. Obs. exc. dial.1548 Hall Chron., Hen. IV, Introd. 9 He was forelayed and taken. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 667 For feare (quoth he) that I be forlaied by the way, and rifled by him. 1700 Dryden Palamon & A. i. 4... Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai 0.0 3.0 0.0
2
forlay
▪ I. † forˈlay, v. Obs. [f. for- prefix1 + lay v.] trans. To lay aside.a 1300 Cursor M. 24328 (Cott.) We stemmed still als stan, Þof lijf was vs for-laid.▪ II. forlay see forelay. Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai 0.0 1.5 0.0
3
forestall
▪ I. forestall, n. (ˈfɔəstɔːl) Forms: 1 for(e)steal(l, 2–9 forstal(l, 7 foristell, 8 forestal, 6– forestall. In sense 2 also 7–9 fostal. [In sense 1, OE. for-, foresteall, f. fore- prefix + steall, stall, app. used in the sense of ‘position taken up’; for sense cf. the vbs. forelay, forset. In sense... Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai 0.0 0.90000004 0.0
4
fore-
fore-, prefix In OE. the adv. fore (like its equivalent in various other Teut. langs.) was used as a prefix (1) to verbs, giving the additional sense of ‘before’ (either in time, position, order, or rank), and (2) to ns. either forming designations of objects or parts of objects occupying a front po... Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai 0.0 0.6 0.0