Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To forbid; prohibit.
- To bewitch.
- To injure by immoderate praise; affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To forbid; to prohibit.
- transitive verb obsolete To bewitch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, Northern England, Scotland To
charm ;bewitch . - verb transitive, Northern England, Scotland To
injure or cause bad luck throughimmoderate praise orflattery ; affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.
Etymologies
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From for- + speak.
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