† forthrastv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To crush, shatter.
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c825 Vesp. Ps. ix. 36 [x. 15] Forðræst earm ðes synfullan.
a1300 E.E. Psalter xlvii[i]. 7 In strange gaste schippes of Thars for-thrist saltou.
a1400 Visions St. Paul 34 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 224 Synful soules, and al for-þrast.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 249 Bot in þe þryd [act of God's vengeance] watz for-þrast al þat þryue schuld.
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v.c825- not to see the wood see wood for the trees for trees
- not to seek
- not to set at a glove
- not to sleep a or one wink
- not to smell right
- not to speak a word of
- not to take no for an answer
- not to taste
- not to tell a hawk from a handsaw
- not to tell one's shirt
- not to to wonder what hit one
- not to touch with a pair of tongs
- not to trust a person as far as one can throw her
- not to trust a person as far as one can throw him
- not to trust as far as one can throw her
- not to trust as far as one can throw him
- not to turn a hair
- not to understand a word of
- not to value a rope's end
- not to value of a rope's end
- not to want to know
- not to wish on a dog
- not to wish something on a dog
- not to worry
- not too