foresight ( gh silent)

[Pref. fore-, and Eng. sight (q. v.).] I. Ordinary Language: IMG:content-0019.png:[blocks in formation] Drayton: Polyolbion , p. 35. 2. To neglect; to omit. "Why she did her wonted course forslowe ." Spenser: F. Q., VII. vi. 16. 3. To render slow; to delay. "By no meanes my way I would forslowe ." Spenser: F. Q., IV. x. 15. B. In trans.: To be dilatory or slow; to delay; to loiter. "Foreslow no longer, make we hence amain." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. 111., ii. 3. *före-snaf-fle, v. t. [Pref. fore-, and Eng.snaffle (q. v.).] To restrain by anticipation. "Had not I fore snaffled my mynde by votarye promise Not toe yoke in wedlock?" Stanyhurst: Virgil's Æneid , iv. 17.