Sentence:  "Dinna <WSD>forespeak</WSD> them, woman! dinna <WSD>forespeak</WSD> them!" said the man with a dark frown, and with equal earnestness, but with a tinge of superstitious alarm in his voice and manner. "They wud fain hae your good word, an' no your evil tongue with them; and so come, good wife, tell us what ken ye—what's biding them?—come, what have they to do?" 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To bewitch, to charm.