A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary / For the Use of Students

by J. R. Clark Hall

[ for-spildan] (CP) -spillan (AO) to waste, lose, disperse, bring to nothing, destroy, ruin, kill. [‘forspill’]

[ forspillednes] f. waste, destruction, perdition, Æ.

forsprec- = foresprec-

forspyll- = forspill-

[ forspyrcan] to dry up, PPs 101³.

[ forst] (frost) m. ‘frost,’ Ph, Rd. [[frēosan]]

forstæppan = [forestæppan]

[ forstal] (LL) = [foresteall]

[ forstalian] (refl.) to steal away, LL.

[ forstandan²] to defend, help, protect, LL: withstand, prevent, hinder, resist, oppose, Met: benefit, avail, CP: understand, Bo; CP: signify, be equal to, EC, LL. [‘forstand’]