forslowing

Verb

forslow (third-person singular simple present forslows, present participle forslowing, simple past and past participle forslowed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
   • [I]f you can thinke vpon any preſent meanes for his deliuerie, doe not forſlow it.1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii...
2. (obsolete, transitive) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
   • But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
   • Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...