Definition of "forslow"

forslow

verb
third-person singular simple present forslows, present participle forslowing, simple past and past participle forslowed
1. (transitive) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
  Quotations
  [I]f you can thinke vpon any preſent meanes for his deliuerie, doe not forſlow it.
  1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, Act V, scene iii, signature [Q iiij], recto
2. (transitive) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
  Quotations
  But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.
  1682, John Dryden, Epistles, section XIII
3. (intransitive) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
  Quotations
  Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)