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FORESTA'LLER, f. One that anticipates the mar¬ 
ket ; one that fore dal Is. 
FORESTALL'ING, in law, fs the buying or bargain¬ 
ing for any corn, ca;tle, or other rnerchandife, by the way, 
as they come to fairs or markets to he fold, before they 
are brought thither; to the intent to fell she fame again, 
at a higher and dearer price. Ail endeavours to inhance 
the common price of any victuals or rnerchandife, and 
practices which have an apparent tendency thereto, 
whether by fpreading falfe rumours, or by buying and 
felling again the fame thing in the fame market, &c. are 
highly criminal by the common-law ; and all fuch of¬ 
fences anciently came under the general appellation of 
foredalling. 3 Inf. 195 196. And fo jealous is the com¬ 
mon-law of practices of this nature, which are a general 
inconvenience and prejudice to the people, and very op- 
preflive to the poorer fort, that it will not fuffer corn to be 
fold in the fheaf before thrafhed ; for by fucli fale the 
market is in efteCt foredalled. 3 Injl. 197. H. P. C. 152. 
Foredalling, ingrofling, and regrating, are offences ge¬ 
nerally claffed together as of the fame import, and equally 
hurtful to the public. Several datutes were from time 
to time made againfl thefe offences in general, and alfo 
fpecially with refpeCt to particular fpecies of good ac¬ 
cording to their feveral circumflances ; all of which from 
the 5 and 6 Edw. VI. c. 14, downwards, and all adds for 
enforcing the fame are repealed by 12 Geo. III. c. 71 ; 
and thefe offences are now punifhable upon indidfment at 
the common law by fine and imprifonment. 
Salt has been held to be within the provifions againfl 
foredalling, as a neceflary vidtual; but not hops, nor ap¬ 
ples or other fruits. See 2 and 3 Edw. VI. c. 15, fiill in 
force; prohibiting butchers, brewers, bakers, poulterers, 
cooks and fruiterers, from confpiring not to fell vidtuals, 
but at certain prices, on penalty of ten pounds for the 
fird offence, twenty pounds for the fecond, forty for the 
third, &c. and if fuch confpiracy be made by any com¬ 
pany, or body corporate, the corporation (hall be diflblv- 
ed. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. Bo. ■ 
FORESTAY', /. A fea term, the flay of the foremad, 
FORESTBO'RN, adj. Born in a wild: 
This boy is forefborn. 
And hath been tutor’d in the rudiments 
Of defperate ftudies., Shakefpeare. 
FOR'ESTER, f. [ forejlicr , Fr.] An officer of the fo¬ 
re fl : 
Forejler, my friend, where is the bufh, 
That we may (land and play themurtherer in ? Shakefpeare. 
An inhabitant of the wild country.—Do you hear, fo¬ 
rejler? Shakefpeare .---A forefl-tree.—Thisnicenefs is more 
confpicuous in flowers, and the herbaceous offspring, than 
in forefers, Evelyn. 
FORES'TERTON, a town of the American States, in 
Burlington county, New Jerfey, which, lies between 
Ayerflon and Evefham; fifteen miles eafl of Philadel¬ 
phia, and eleven miles fouth of Burlington city. 
FOR'EST-TREE f. A tree growing in a forefl. 
FORES'TUS (Peter), an eminent phyfician, born at 
Alcmaer in Holland, in 1522. He fiudied firft at Louvain, 
and then at the mod celebrated Italian univerfities, and 
took the degree of M. D. at Bologna. He gaffed fome 
time at Paris, where he contracted an intimacy with James 
Sylvius. Returning to his native place, he praCtifed 
phyfic there for fome years, and then accepted an invita¬ 
tion to Delft, where he paffed the greater part of his life 
.in the capacity of public phyfician. At the edablifh- 
ment of the univerfity of Leyden he was one of the firfi 
medical profeffors. In his old age he returned to Alc¬ 
maer, where he died in 1597. Few practitioners have 
left behind them fo large a collection of their own obfer- 
,nations as Foreftus. His firfi work was a book De in- 
certo et fallaci Urinarum jfudicio, written chiefly to ex- 
pofe the frauds-and falfe nretenfions of urine-doClors. 
Vol. VII. No. 450. 
569 
He next began to publifh his collection Obfervationum 
ct Curationum Medicinaliiim, which were records of his 
practice in aimed all difeafe.-, internal and external, and 
at length amounted to thirty-two books, befides nine books 
of Chirurgical Obfervations, forming all together fix vo¬ 
lumes folio. This is a vad body of clinical facts, which 
may he ufefully confulted. 
FO'RESWAT, or Fo'reswart, adj. [from /went.] 
Spent with heat.—Mifo and Mopfa, like a couple ot fore- 
fcoat mehers, were getting the pure filver of their bodies 
out of the ore of their garments. Sidney. 
To FORETA'STE, v. a. To have amepaft of; to have 
prefcience of. To taft.e before another -. 
Perhaps the faCt 
Is not fo heinous now ,foretafed fruit, 
Profan’d firft by the ferpent, by him firft 
Made common, and unhallow’d, ere our tafle. Milton. 
FO'RETASTE, f. Anticipation of.—A pleafure that 
.a man may call as properly his own as his foul and his 
confcience, neither liable to accident, nor expofed to in¬ 
jury, it is the foretajle of heaven, and the earned of eter¬ 
nity. South. 
To FORETELL', v. a. prefer, and part. pafT. foretold. 
To predict ; to prophefy. To foretoken; to forefhow. 
—Thefe ills prophetic figns have oft foretold. J. IVarton. 
What art thou, whofe heavy looks foretell 
Some dreadful dory hanging on thy tongue. Shakefpeare , 
To FORETELL', v.n. To utter prophecy.—-All the 
prophets from Samuel, and thofe that follow after, have 
Y\ke.\\\Ic foretold of thefe days... AEls, iii. 24. 
FORETELL'ER, /. PrediCter; forefhewer.—Others 
are propofed, not that the foretold events fhould be 
known, but that the aecomplidiment that expounds 
them may evince, that the foreteller of them was able to 
forefee thee. Boyle. 
To FORETHI'NK, v.a. To anticipate in the mind; to 
have prefcience of: 
The foul of every man 
Prophetically does forethink thy fall. Shakefpeare. 
To contrive antecedently.—Bleded be that God which 
hath given you an heart to forethink this, and a will to ho¬ 
nour him with his own. Bifiop Hall. 
To FORETHI'NK, v. n. To contrive before-hand : 
What’s my frenzy will be call’d my crime : 
What then is thine ? thou cool deliberate villian ! 
Thou w ife, for et kinking y weighing, politician! Smith. 
FORETHO'UGHT, f Prefcience; anticipation.—He 
that is undone, is equally undone, whether it be by fpite- 
fulnefs of forethought, or by the folly of overfight, or evil 
counfel. L’EJlrange .— Provident care. — Devifes by lad 
will and tedament are always more favoured in conftruc- 
tion, than formal deeds, which are prefnmed to be made 
with great caution, forethought, and advice. Blackfone. 
To PORKTO’KEN, v. a. To forefhow; to prognof- 
ticate as a fign : 
The king from Ireland hades ; but did no good ; 
Whild drange prodigious figns foretoken blood. Daniel. 
FORETO'KEN, f. Prevenient fign ; prognodic.— 
It may prove fome ominous foretoken of misfortune. Sidney. 
FORETOO'TH, f. The tooth in the anterior part of 
the mouth ; the incifor. — The foreteeth fliould be formed 
broad, and with a thin fharp edge like chizzles. Ray. 
FO'RETOP, f. That part of a woman’s head-drefs 
that is forward ; the hair immediately above the forehead. 
The top of the foremad. 
FORETOP'MASTjyi A fea term, the top of the fore- 
mad. 
FORETY'E, f A fea term, the tye belonging to the 
foremad. 
EOREVOU'CHED, part. Affirmed before; formerly 
told ; 
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