- Forlaft
- Forlaft \For*laft"\, obs. p. p. of {Forleave}. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper — c 1390 CHAUCER Physician’s Tale 1. 83 A theef of venysoun, that hath forlaft His likerousnesse [depravity] and al his olde craft, Kan kepe a forest best of any man. 1695 T. FULLER Church Hist. Britain IX. iii. Alwayes set a to catch a ; and the… … Proverbs new dictionary