Word Meanings - FORSTALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To forestall. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to FORSTALL)

• FORESTALL
  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
• FORESTALLER
  One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.