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forslows

forslows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forslow.

Meaning of forslow

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...

Questions about forslows

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Forslows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forslow.

Words near forslows in the dictionary

  1. forslothed
  2. forslothing
  3. forslow
  4. forslowed
  5. forslowing
  6. forslows
  7. forslug
  8. forslugging
  9. Forslund
  10. Forslunds
  11. forslung

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