[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That forestalls, in senses of vb.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, Wks. (Grosart), XI. 262. To bridle the extorting and forestalling coosenage.
1634. Milton, Comus, 284. Co. Perhaps fore-stalling night prevented them.
1799. Spirit Publ. Jrnls., I. 148. Venison is very cheap this year, owing to the discontinuance of public dinners; and you will please to observe, that it has a superior advantage to every other kind of meat, inasmuch as the monopolizing and forestalling butchers cannot take in the public, because none of them deal in the article.
1839. Hood, Open Question, xii.
| In spite of all fanatic compiles, | |
| I cannot think the day a bit diviner, | |
| Because no children, with forestalling smiles, | |
| Throng, happy, to the gates of Eden Minor. |
