Definition of Forhaile

1. to distract [v FORHAILED, FORHAILING, FORHAILES] - See also: distract

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forhaile

forgnide
forgo
forgoer
forgoers
forgoes
forgoing
forgone
forgot
forgotten
forgottenness
forgottens
forgraith
forgraithing
forgrow
forguilt
forhaile (current term)
forhailed
forhailes
forhale
forhang
forhard
forharden
forhare
forhele
forhent
forhents
forhew
forhill
forhold
forhoo

Literary usage of Forhaile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Gascoigne, Prol. to Hermit's Tale, ed. Hazlitt, i. 139. forhaile, to distract. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Sept., 243. See NED. (sv For-, prefix > 5 b). for-hent ..."

2. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... the care that doth niee forhaile; What shall I doe ? what way shall I wend, My piteous plight and losse to amend ? ..."

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