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Forehand
FO'REHAND, noun
1. The part of a horse which is before the rider.
2. The chief part.
FO'REHAND, adjective Done sooner than is regular.
And so extenuate the forehand sin.
Forehanded
FO'REHANDED, adjective
1. Early; timely; seasonable; as a forehanded care.
2. In America, in good circumstances as to property; free from debt and possessed of property; as a forehanded farmer.
3. Formed in the foreparts.
A substantial true-bred beast, bravely forehanded
Forehead
FOREHEAD, noun for'hed, or rather for'ed.
1. The part of the face which extends from the hair on the top of the head to the eyes.
2. Impudence; confidence; assurance; audaciousness.
Forehear
FOREHE'AR, verb intransitive To be informed before.
Forehend
FOREHEND', verb transitive To seize. [Not in use.]
Forehew
FOREHEW', verb transitive To hew or cut in front.
Foreholding
FOREHOLDING, noun Predictions; ominous forebodings; superstitious prognostications. [Not used.]
Forehook
FO'REHOOK, noun In ships, a breast-hook; a piece of timber placed across the stem to unite the bows and strengthen the forepart of the ship.
Forehorse
FO'REHORSE, noun The horse in a team which goes foremost.
Foreign
FOREIGN, adjective for'an. [Latin foris, foras.]
1. Belonging to another nation or country; alien; not of the country in which one resides; extraneous. We call every country foreign which is not within the jurisdiction of our own government. In this sense, Scotland before the union was foreign to England, and Canada is now foreign to the United States. More generally foreign is applied to countries more remote than an adjacent territory; as a foreign market; a foreign prince. In the United States, all transatlantic countries are foreign
2. Produced in a distant country or jurisdiction; coming from another country; as foreign goods; goods of foreign manufacture; a foreign minister.
3. Remote; not belonging; not connected; with to or from. You dissemble; the sentiments you express are foreign to your heart. This design is foreign from my thoughts. [The use of from is preferable and best authorized.]
4. Impertinent; not pertaining; not to the purpose. The observation is foreign from the subject under consideration.
5. Excluded; not admitted; held at a distance.
6. Extraneous; adventitious; not native or natural.
7. In law, a foreign attachment is an attachment of the goods of a foreigner within a city or liberty, for the satisfaction of a debt due from the foreigner to a citizen; or an attachment of the money or goods of a debtor, in the hands of another person.
A foreign bill of exchange, is a bill drawn by a person in one country, on his correspondent or agent in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is drawn by one person or another in the same jurisdiction or country.
FOREIGN plea, a plea or objection to a judge as incompetent to try the question, on the ground that it is not within his jurisdiction.
Foreigner
FOR'EIGNER, noun for'aner. A person born in a foreign country, or without the country or jurisdiction of which one speaks. A Spaniard is a foreigner in France and England. All men not born in the United States are to them foreigners, and they are aliens till naturalized. A naturalized person is a citizen; but we still call him a foreigner by birth.
Foreignness
FOR'EIGNNESS, noun for'anness. Remoteness; want of relation; as the foreignness of a subject from the main business.
Forejudge
FOREJUDGE, verb transitive forjuj'.
1. To prejudge; to judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof.
2. In law, to expel from a court, for malpractice or non-appearance. When an attorney is sued, and called to appear in court, if he declines, he is forejudged, and his name is struck from the rolls.
Forejudgment
FOREJUDG'MENT, noun Judgment previously formed.
Foreknow
FOREKNOW, verb intransitive [See Know.] To have previous knowledge of; to foresee.
Who would the miseries of man foreknow?
For whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. .
Foreknowable
FOREKNOWABLE, adjective That may be foreknown.
Foreknower
FOREKNOWER, noun One that foreknows.
Foreknowledge
FOREKNOWL'EDGE, noun Knowledge of a thing before it happens; prescience.
If I foreknew, foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.
Forel
FOR'EL, noun A kind of parchment for the cover of books.
Foreland
FO'RELAND, noun A promontory or cape; a point of land extending into the sea some distance from the line of the shore; a head land; as the North and South foreland in Kent, in England.
Forelay
FORELA'Y, verb transitive
1. To lay wait for; to entrap by ambush.
2. To contrive antecedently.
Foreleader
FORELE'ADER, noun One who leads others by his example.
Forelend
FORELEND', verb transitive To lend or give beforehand.
Forelock
FO'RELOCK, noun
1. The lock or hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
Take time by the forelock
2. In sea language, a little flat pointed wedge of iron, used at the end of a bolt, to retain it firmly in its place.
Forelook
FORELOOK', verb transitive To look beforehand or forward.
Foreman
FO'REMAN, noun
1. The first or chief man; particularly, the chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
2. The chief man in a printing office or other establishment, who conducts the whole work.
Foremast
FO'REMAST, noun The mast of a ship or other vessel which is placed in the forepart or forecastle, and carries the foresail and foretop-sail yards.
Foremast-men, on board of ships, the men who take in the top-sails, sling the yards, furl the sails, etc.
Foremeant
FOREMEANT', adjective forement'. Intended beforehand.
Foremembered
FOREMEM'BERED, adjective Called to mind previously.
Forementioned
FOREMEN'TIONED, adjective Mentioned before; recited or written in a former part of the same writing or discourse.
Foremost
FO'REMOST, adjective
1. First in place; most advanced; as the foremost troops of an army.
2. First in dignity. In honor he held the foremost rank.
Foremother
FO'REMOTHER, noun A female ancestor.
Forenamed
FO'RENAMED, adjective
1. Named or nominated before.
2. Mentioned before in the same writing or discourse.
Forenoon
FO'RENOON, noun The former part of the day, from the morning to meridian or noon. We usually call the first part of the day, from the dawn to the time of breakfast, or the hour of business, the morning, and from this period to noon, the forenoon But the limits are not precisely defined by custom.
Forenotice
FORENO'TICE, noun Notice or information of an event before it happens.
Forensic
FOREN'SIC, adjective [from Latin forensis, from forum, a court.]
Belonging to courts of judicature; used in courts or legal proceedings; as a forensic term; forensic eloquence or disputes.
Foreordain
FOREORDA'IN, verb intransitive To ordain or appoint before; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
Foreordination
FOREORDINA'TION, noun Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
Forepart
FO'REPART, noun
1. The part first in time; as the forepart of the day or week.
2. The part most advanced in place; the anterior part; as the forepart of any moving body.
3. The beginning; as the forepart of a series.
Forepast
FO'REPAST, adjective Past before a certain time; as forepast sins. [Little used.]
Forepossessed
FORE'POSSESS'ED, adjective Holding formerly in possession; also, preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged.
Foreprize
FOREPRI'ZE, verb transitive To prize or rate beforehand.
Forepromised
FOREPROM'ISED, adjective Promised beforehand; preengaged.
Forequoted
FOREQUO'TED, adjective Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the work.
Forerank
FO'RERANK, noun The first rank; the front.
Forereach
FORERE'ACH, upon, verb transitive In navigation, to gain or advance upon in progression or motion.
Foreread
FORERE'AD, verb transitive To signify by tokens. obsolete
Forereading
FORERE'ADING, noun Previous perusal.
Forerecited
FORERECI'TED, adjective Named or recited before.
Foreright
FO'RERIGHT, adjective Ready; forward; quick.
FO'RERIGHT, adverb Right forward; onward.
Forerun
FORERUN', verb transitive
1. To advance before; to come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger.
Heaviness foreruns the good event.
2. To precede; to have the start of.
Forerunner
FORERUN'NER, noun
1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger.
My elder brothers, my forerunners came.
2. An ancestor or predecessor. obsolete
3. A prognostic; a sign foreshowing something to follow. Certain pains in the head, back and limbs are the forerunners of a fever.
Foresaid
FO'RESAID, adjective Spoken before. [See Aforesaid.]
Foresail
FO'RESAIL, noun A sail extended on the foreyard, which is supported by the foremast.
Foresay
FORESA'Y, verb transitive To predict; to foretell.
Foresaying
FORESA'YING, noun A prediction.
Foresee
FORESEE', verb transitive To see beforehand; to see or know an event before it happens; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself.
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Foreseeing
FORESEE'ING, participle present tense Seeing before the event.
Foreseen
FORESEE'N, participle passive Seen beforehand.
Foreseer
FORESEE'R, noun One who foresees or foreknows.
Foreseize
FORESE'IZE, verb transitive To seize beforehand.
Foreshadow
FORESHAD'OW, verb transitive To shadow or typify beforehand.
Foreshame
FORESHA'ME, verb transitive To shame; to bring reproach on.
Foreshew
FORESHEW. [See foreshow.]
Foreship
FO'RESHIP, noun The forepart of a ship. .
Foreshorten
FORESHORT'EN, verb transitive In painting; to shorten figures for the sake of showing those behind.
Foreshortening
FORESHORT'ENING, noun In painting, the act of shortening figures for the sake of showing those behind.
The art of conveying to the mind the impression of the entire length of an object, when represented as viewed in an oblique or receding position.
Foreshow
FORESHOW, verb transitive
1. To show beforehand; to prognosticate.
Next, like aurora, Spenser rose, whose purple blush the day foreshows.
2. To predict; to foretell
3. To represent beforehand, or before it comes.
Foreshower
FORESHOWER, noun One who predicts.
Foreshrouds
FORESHROUDS', noun The shrouds of a ship attached to the foremast.
Foreside
FO'RESIDE, noun The front side; also, a specious outside.
Foresight
FO'RESIGHT, noun
1. Prescience; foreknowledge; prognostication; the act of foreseeing.
2. Provident care of futurity; foreknowledge accompanied with prudence in guarding against evil.
Foresightful
FORESIGHTFUL, adjective Prescient; provident. [Little used.]
Foresignify
FORESIG'NIFY, verb transitive To signify beforehand; to betoken previously; to foreshow; to typify.
Foreskin
FO'RESKIN, noun The skin that covers the glans penis; the prepuce.
Foreskirt
FO'RESKIRT, noun The loose and pendulous part of a coat before.
Foreslack
FORESLACK', verb transitive To neglect by idleness. [Not used.]
Foreslow
FORESLOW, verb transitive
1. To delay; to hinder; to impede; to obstruct. [Not used.]
No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreshow their hasty pace.
2. To neglect; to omit. [Not used.]
FORESLOW, verb intransitive To be dilatory; to loiter. [Not used.]
Forespeak
FORESPE'AK, verb transitive
1. To foresay; to foreshow; to foretell or predict.
2. To forbid. [Not used.]
3. To bewitch. [Not used.]
Forespeaking
FORESPE'AKING, noun A prediction; also, a preface. [Not used.]
Forespeech
FORESPEE'CH, noun A preface. [Not used.]
Forespent
FORESPENT', adjective
1. Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
2. Past; as life forespent [Little used.]
Forespurrer
FORESPUR'RER, noun One that rides before. [Not used.]
Forest
FOR'EST, noun [Latin foris.]
1. An extensive wood, or a large tract of land covered with trees. In America, the word is usually applied to a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated. It differs from wood or woods chiefly in extent. We read of the Hercynian forest in Germany, and the forest of Ardennes, in France or Gaul.
2. In law, in Great Britain, a certain territory of woody grounds and pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest chase and warren, to rest and abide in, under the protection of the king, for his pleasure. In this sense, the word has no application in America.
Forest laws, laws for governing and regulating forests, and preserving game.
FOR'EST, verb transitive To cover with trees or wood.
Forestaff
FO'REST'AFF, noun An instrument used at sea, for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies; called also cross-staff.
Forestage
FOR'ESTAGE, noun An ancient service paid by foresters to the king; also, the right of foresters.
Forestall
FORESTALL', verb transitive [See Stall.]
1. To anticipate; to take beforehand.
Why need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet what he would most avoid?
2. To hinder by preoccupation or prevention.
I will not forestall your judgment of the rest.
3. In law, to buy or bargain for corn, or provisions of any kind, before they arrive at the market or fair, with intent to sell them at higher prices. This is a penal offense.
4. To deprive by something prior. [Not in use.]
Forestalled
FORESTALL'ED, participle passive Anticipated; hindered; purchased before arrival in market.
Forestaller
FORESTALL'ER, noun One who forestalls; a person who purchases provisions before they come to the fair or market, with a view to raise the price.
Forestalling
FORESTALL'ING, participle present tense Anticipating; hindering; buying provisions before they arrive in market, with intent to sell them at high prices.
FORESTALL'ING, noun Anticipation; prevention; the act of buying provisions before they are offered in market, with intent to sell them at higher prices.
Forestay
FORESTAY, noun In a ship's rigging, a large strong rope reaching from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end, to support the mast.
Forested
FOR'ESTED, participle passive Covered with trees; wooded.
Forester
FOR'ESTER, noun
1. In England, an officer appointed to watch a forest, preserve the game, and institute suits for trespasses.
2. An inhabitant of a forest.
3. A forest tree.
Foreswat
FO'RESWAT, adjective [See Sweat.] Exhausted by heat. obsolete
Foretackle
FO'RETACK'LE, noun The tackle on the foremast.
Foretaste
FO'RETASTE, noun A taste beforehand; anticipation. The pleasures of piety are a foretaste of heaven.
FORETA'STE, verb transitive
1. To taste before possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of something; to anticipate.
2. To taste before another.
Foretasted
FORETA'STED, participle passive Tasted beforehand or before another.
Foretaster
FORETA'STER, noun One that tastes beforehand or before another.
Foretasting
FORETA'STING, participle present tense Tasting before.
Foreteach
FORETE'ACH, verb transitive To teach beforehand.
Foretell
FORETELL', verb transitive
1. To predict; to tell before an event happens; to prophesy.
2. To foretoken; to foreshow.
FORETELL', verb intransitive To utter prediction or prophecy.
All the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
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Foreteller
FORETELL'ER, noun One who predicts or prophesies; a foreshower.
Foretelling
FORETELL'ING, noun Prediction.
Forethink
FORETHINK', verb transitive
1. To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind.
The soul of every man perpetually does forethink thy fall.
2. To contrive beforehand.
FORETHINK', verb intransitive To contrive beforehand.
Forethought
FORETHOUGHT', forethaut'. preterit tense of forething.
FO'RETHOUGHT, noun fo'rethaut.
1. A thinking beforehand; anticipation; prescience; premeditation.
2. Provident care.
Foretoken
FORETO'KEN, verb transitive To foreshew; to presignify; to prognosticate.
Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
FORETO'KEN, noun Prognostic; previous sign.
Foretooth
FO'RETOOTH, noun plural foreteeth. One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.
Foretop
FO'RETOP, noun
1. The hair on the forepart of the head.
2. That part of a woman's headdress that is forward, or the top of a periwig.
3. In ships, the platform erected at the head of the foremast. In this sense, the accent on the two syllables is nearly equal.
FORETOP'-MAST, noun The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the foretop-gallant-mast.
Forevouched
FOREVOUCH'ED, participle passive Affirmed before; formerly told.
Foreward
FO'REWARD, noun The van; the front.
Forewarn
FOREWARN', verb transitive forewaurn'.
1. To admonish beforehand.
I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear. .
2. To inform previously; to give previous notice.
3. To caution beforehand.
Forewarned
FOREWARN'ED, participle passive Admonished, cautioned or informed beforehand.
Forewarning
FOREWARN'ING, participle present tense Previously admonishing or informing.
FOREWARN'ING, noun Previous admonition, caution or notice.
Forewend
FOREWEND', verb transitive To go before. obsolete
Forewish
FOREWISH', verb transitive To wish beforehand.
Forewoman
FO'REWOMAN, noun A woman who is chief; the head woman.
Foreworn
FOREWORN, participle passive [See Wear.] Worn out; wasted or obliterated by time or use.
Forfeit
FOR'FEIT, verb transitive for'fit. [Low Latin forisfacere, from Latin foris, out or abroad, and facio, to make.]
To lose or render confiscable, by some fault, offense or crime; to lose the right to some species of property or that which belongs to one; to alienate the right to possess by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by a breach of the condition of tenure or by treason. By the ancient laws of England, a man forfeited his estate by neglecting or refusing to fulfill the conditions on which it was granted to him, or by a breach of fealty. A man now forfeits his estate by committing treason. A man forfeits his honor or reputation by a breach of promise, and by any criminal or disgraceful act. Statutes declare that by certain acts a man shall forfeit a certain sum of money. Under the feudal system, the right to the land forfeited, vested in the lord or superior. In modern times, the right to things forfeited is generally regulated by statutes; it is vested in the state, in corporations, or in prosecutors or informers, or partly in the state or a corporation, and partly in an individual.
The duelist, to secure the reputation of bravery, forfeits the esteem of good men, and the favor of heaven.
FOR'FEIT, noun for'fit. [Low Latin forisfactura.]
1. That which is forfeited or lost, or the right to which is alienated by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulet; a penalty. He that murders pays the forfeit of his life. When a statute creates a penalty for a transgression, either in money or in corporal punishment, the offender who, on conviction, pays the money or suffers the punishment, pays the forfeit
2. One whose life is forfeited. [Not in use.]
FOR'FEIT, part. adjective used for forfeited. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
And his long toils were forfeit for a look.
Forfeitable
FORFEITABLE, adjective Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable like the lands themselves.
Forfeited
FOR'FEITED, participle passive Lost or alienated by an offense, crime or breach of condition.
Forfeiting
FOR'FEITING, participle present tense Alienating or losing, as a right by an offense, crime or breach of condition.
Forfeiture
FOR'FEITURE, noun
1. The act of forfeiting; the losing of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition or other act. In regard to property, forfeiture is a loss of the right to possess, but not generally the actual possession, which is to be transferred by some subsequent process. In the feudal system, a forfeiture of lands gave him in reversion or remainder a right to enter.
2. That which is forfeited; an estate forfeited; a fine or mulet. The prince enriched his treasury by fines and forfeitures.
Forfex
FOR'FEX, noun [Latin] A pair of scissors.
Forgave
FORGA'VE, preterit tense of forgive, which see.
Forge
FORGE, noun [Latin ferrum, iron.]
1. A furnace in which iron or other metal is heated and hammered into form. A larger forge is called with us iron-works. Smaller forges consisting of a bellows so placed as to cast a stream of air upon ignited coals, are of various forms and users. Armies have travelling forges, for repairing gun-carriages, etc.
2. Any place where any thing is made or shaped.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalline bodies.
In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
FORGE, verb transitive
1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
2. To make by any means.
Names that the schools forged, and put into the mouths of scholars.
3. To make falsely; to falsify; to counterfeit; to make in the likeness of something else; as, to forge coin; to forge a bill of exchange or a receipt.
Forged
FORGED, participle passive Hammered; beaten into shape; made; counterfeited.
Forger
FORGER, noun
1. One that makes or forms.
2. One who counterfeits; a falsifier.
Forgery
FORGERY, noun
1. The act of forging or working metal into shape. In this sense, rarely or never now used.
2. The act of falsifying; the crime of counterfeiting; as the forgery of coin, or of bank notes, or of a bond. forgery may consist in counterfeiting a writing, or in setting a false name to it, to the prejudice of another person.
3. That which is forged or counterfeited. Certain letters, purporting to be written by Gen. Washington, during the revolution, were forgeries.
Forget
FORGET', verb transitive preterit tense forgot. [forgat, obsolete ]
1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. .
2. To slight; to neglect.
Can a woman forget her sucking child? Yea, they may forget yet will I not forget thee. .
Forgetful
FORGET'FUL, adjective
1. Apt to forget; easily losing the remembrance of. A forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. .
3. Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious; as forgetful draughts.
Forgetfulness
FORGET'FULNESS, noun
1. The quality of losing the remembrance or recollection of a thing; or rather, the quality of being apt to let any thing slip from the mind.
2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
A sweet forgetfulness of human care.
3. Neglect; negligence; careless omission; inattention; as forgetfulness of duty.
Forgetter
FORGET'TER, noun One that forgets; a heedless person.
Forgetting
FORGET'TING, participle present tense Losing the remembrance of.
FORGET'TING, noun The act of forgetting; forgetfulness; inattention.
Forgettingly
FORGET'TINGLY, adverb By forgetting or forgetfulness.
Forgivable
FORGIV'ABLE, adjective [See Forgive.] That may be pardoned.
Forgive
FORGIVE, verb transitive forgiv'. preterit tense forgave; participle passive forgiven. [Latin remitto. See Give.]
1. To pardon; to remit, as an offense or debt; to overlook an offense, and treat the offender as not guilty. The original and proper phrase is to forgive the offense, to send it away, to reject it, that is, not to impute it, [put it to] the offender. But by an easy transition, we also use the phrase, to forgive the person offending.
FORGIVE us our debts.
If we forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. .
As savages never forget a favor, so they never forgive an injury.
It is to be noted that pardon, like forgive may be followed by the name or person, and by the offense; but remit can be followed by the offense only. We forgive or pardon the man, but we do not remit him.
2. To remit as a debt, fine or penalty.
Forgiven
FORGIV'EN, participle passive Pardoned remitted.
Forgiveness
FORGIV'ENESS, noun forgiv'ness.
1. The act of forgiving; the pardon of an offender, by which he is considered and treated as not guilty. The forgiveness of enemies is a christian duty.
2. The pardon or remission of an offense or crime; as the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
3. Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
And mild forgiveness intercede to stop the coming blow.
4. Remission of a debt, fine or penalty.
Forgiver
FORGIV'ER, noun One who pardons or remits.
Forgiving
FORGIV'ING, participle present tense
1. Pardoning; remitting.
2. adjective Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; as a forgiving temper.
Forgot
FORGOT'
FORGOT'TEN, participle passive of forget.
Forgotten
FORGOT'TEN, pp. of forget.
Forhail
FORHA'IL, verb transitive To draw or distress. [Not used.]
Forhead-Bald
FOR'HEAD-BALD, adjective Bald above the forehead. .
Forinsecal
FORIN'SECAL, adjective [Latin forinsecus.] foreign; alien. [Little used.]
Forisfamiliate
FORISFAMIL'IATE, verb transitive [Latin foris, without, and familia, family.]
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance. Literally, to put one's self out of the family.
Forisfamiliation
FORISFAMILIA'TION, noun When a child has received a portion of his father's estate, and renounces all title to a further shar, his act is called forisfamiliation and he is said to be forisfamiliated.
Fork
FORK, noun [Latin furca.]
1. an instrument consisting of a handle, and a blade of metal, divided into two or more points or prongs, used for lifting or pitching any thing; as a tablefork for feeding; a pitchfork; a dungfork, etc. forks are also made of ivory, wood or other material.
2. A point; as a thunderbolt with three forks. Shakespeare uses it for the point of an arrow.
3. Forks, in the plural, the point where a road parts into two; and the point where a river divides, or rather where two rivers meet and unite in one stream. Each branch is called a fork
FORK, verb intransitive
1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
2. to divide into two; as, a road forks.
FORK, verb transitive
1. to raise or pitch with a fork as hay.
2. To dig and break ground with a fork
3. To make sharp; to point.
Forked
FORK'ED, participle passive
1. Raised, pitched or dug with a fork.
2. adjective Opening into two or more parts, points or shoots; as a forked tongue; the forked lightning.
3. Having two or more meanings. [Not in use.]
Forkedly
FORK'EDLY, adverb In a forked form.
Forkedness
FORK'EDNESS, noun The quality of opening into two or more parts.
Forkhead
FORK'HEAD, noun the point of an arrow.
Forktail
FORK'TAIL, noun A salmon, in his fourth year's growth. [Local.]
Forky
FORK'Y, adjective Forked; furcated; opening into two or more parts, shoots or points; as a forky tongue.
Forlore
FORLO'RE, adjective Forlorn. [Not in use.]
Forlorn
FORLORN', adjective
1. Deserted; destitute; stripped or deprived; forsaken. Hence, lost; helpless; wretched; solitary.
Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn
To live again in these wild woods forlorn
For here forlorn and lost I tread.
2. Taken away. obsolete
When as night hath us of light forlorn
3. Small; despicable; in a ludicrous sense.
FORLORN hope, properly, a desperate case; hence in military affairs, a detachment of men appointed to lead in an assault, to storm a counterscarp, enter a breach, or perform other service attended with uncommon peril.
FORLORN', noun A lost, forsaken, solitary person.
Forlornness
FORLORN'NESS, noun Destitution; misery; a forsaken or wretched condition.
Forlye
FORLYE, verb intransitive To lye before. [Not used.]
Form
FORM, noun [Latin forma.]
1. The shape or external appearance of a body; the figure, as defined by lines and angles; that manner of being peculiar to each body, which exhibits it to the eye as distinct from every other body. Thus we speak of the form of a circle, the form of a square or triangle, a circular form the form of the head or of the human body, a handsome form an ugly form a frightful form
Matter is the basis or substratum of bodies, form is the particular disposition of matter in each body which distinguishes its appearance from that of every other body.
The form of his visage was changed. .
After that he appeared in another form to two of them, as they walked. .
2. Manner of arranging particulars; disposition of particular things; as a form of words or expressions.
3. Model; draught; pattern.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me. .
4. Beauty; elegance; splendor; dignity.
He hath no form nor comeliness. .
5. Regularity; method; order. This is a rough draught to be reduced to form
6. External appearance without the essential qualities; empty show.
7. Stated method; established practice; ritual or prescribed mode; as the forms of public worship; the forms of judicial proceeding; forms of civility.
8. Ceremony; as, it is a mere matter of form
9. Determinate shape.
The earth was without form and void. .
10. Likeness; image.
Who, being in the form of God - .
He took on him the form of a servant.
11. Manner; system; as a form of government; a monarchical or republican form
12. Manner of arrangement; disposition of component parts; as the interior form or structure of the flesh or bones, or of other bodies.
13. A long seat; a bench without a back.
14. In schools, a class; a rank of students.
15. The seat or bed of a hare.
16. A mold; something to give shape, or on which things are fashioned.
17. In printing, an assemblage of types, composed and arranged in order, disposed into pages or columns, and inclosed and locked in a chase, to receive an impression.
18. Essential form is that mode of existence which constitutes a thing what it is, and without which it could not exist. Thus water and light have each its particular form of existence, and the parts of water being decomposed, it ceases to be water. Accidental form is not necessary to the existence of a body. Earth is earth still, whatever may be its color.
FORM, verb transitive [Latin formo.]
1. To make or cause to exist.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
2. To shape; to mold or fashion into a particular shape or state; as, to form an image of stone or clay.
3. To plan; to scheme; to modify.
4. To arrange; to combine in a particular manner; as, to form a line or square of troops.
5. To adjust; to settle.
Our differences with the Romanists are thus formed into an interest -
6. To contrive; to invent; as, to form a design or scheme.
7. To make; up; to frame; to settle by deductions of reason; as, to form an opinion or judgment; to form an estimate.
8. To mold; to model by instruction and discipline; as, to form the mind to virtuous habits by education.
9. To combine; to unite individuals into a collective body; as, to form a society for missions.
10. To make; to establish. The subscribers are formed by law into a corporation. They have formed regulations for their government.
11. To compile; as, to form a body of laws or customs; to form a digest.
12. To constitute; to make. Duplicity forms no part of his character. These facts form a safe foundation for our conclusions. The senate and house of representatives form the legislative body.
13. In grammar, to make by derivation, or by affixes or prefixes. Latin do, in the preterit, forms dedi.
14. To enact; to make; to ordain; as, to form a law or an edict.
FORM, verb intransitive To take a form
Formal
FORM'AL, adjective
1. According to form; agreeable to established mode; regular; methodical.
2. Strictly ceremonious; precise; exact to affectation; as a man formal in his dress, his gait or deportment.
3. Done in due form, or with solemnity; express; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular. He gave his formal consent to the treaty.
4. Regular; methodical; as the formal stars.
5. Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as formal duty; formal worship.
6. Depending on customary forms.
Still in constraint your suffering sex remains, or bound in formal or in real chains.
7. Having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential.
Of letters the material part is breath and voice; the formal is constituted by the motions and figure of the organs of speech.
8. Retaining its proper and essential characteristic; regular; proper.
To make of him a formal man again.
Formalism
FORM'ALISM, noun Formality. [The latter is generally used.]
Formalist
FORM'ALIST, noun
1. One who observes forms, or practices external ceremonies. More generally,
2. One who regards appearances only, or observes the forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion; a hypocrite. A grave face and the regular practice of ceremonies have often gained to a formalist the reputation of piety.
Formality
FORMAL'ITY, noun
1. The practice or observance of forms.
Formalities of extraordinary zeal and piety are never more studied and elaborate then in desperate designs.
2. Ceremony; mere conformity to customary modes.
Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience.
3. Established order; rule of proceeding; mode; method; as the formalities of judicial process; formalities of law.
4. Order; decorum to be observed; customary mode of behavior.
5. Customary mode of dress; habit; robe.
6. External appearance.
7. Essence; the quality which constitutes a thing what it is.
The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God.
8. In the schools, the manner in which a thing is conceived; or a manner in an object, importing a relation to the understanding, by which it may be distinguished from another object. Thus animality and rationality are formalities.
Formalize
FORM'ALIZE, verb transitive To model. [Not used.]
FORM'ALIZE, verb intransitive To affect formality. [Little used.]
Formally
FORM'ALLY, adverb
1. According to established form, rule, order, rite or ceremony. A treaty was concluded and formally ratified by both parties.
2. Ceremoniously; stiffly; precisely; as, to be stiff and formally reserved.
3. In open appearance; in a visible and apparent state.
You and your followers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church, and the rest of the people.
4. Essentially; characteristically.
That which formally makes this [charity] a christian grace, is the spring from which it flows.
Formation
FORMA'TION, noun [Latin formatio.]
1. The act of forming or making; the act of creating or causing to exist; or more generally, the operation of composing, by bringing materials together, or of shaping and giving form; as the formation of the earth; the formation of a state or constitution.
2. Generation; production; as the formation of ideas.
3. The manner in which a thing is formed. Examine the peculiar formation of the heart.
4. In grammar, the act or manner of forming one word from another, as controller from control.
5. In geology, formation may signify a single mass of one kind of rock, more or less extensive, or a collection of mineral substances, formed by the same agent, under the same or similar circumstances; or it may convey the idea, that certain masses or collections of minerals were formed not only by the same agent, but also at the same time. In this latter sense the term is almost always employed.
Formative
FORM'ATIVE, adjective
1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic.
The meanest plant cannot be raised without seeds, by any formative power residing in the soil.
2. In grammar, serving to form; derivative; not radical; as a termination merely formative
Formed
FORM'ED, participle passive Made; shaped; molded; planned; arranged; combined; enacted; constituted.
Formedon
FORM'EDON, noun [forma doni.] A writ for the recovery of lands by statute of Westminister.
Former
FORM'ER, noun He that forms; a maker; an author.
FOR'MER, adjective comparative deg.
1. Before in time; preceding another or something else in order of time; opposed to latter.
Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled. .
2. Past, and frequently ancient, long past.
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age. .
3. Near the beginning; preceding; as the former part of a discourse or argument.
4. Mentioned before another.
A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of want of judgment; but he cannot be the latter without both that and an ill temper.
Formerly
FOR'MERLY, adverb In time past, either in time immediately preceding, or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. We formerly imported slaves from Africa. Nations formerly made slaves of prisoners taken in war.
Formful
FORM'FUL, adjective Ready to form; creative; imaginative.
Formiate
FOR'MIATE, noun [from Latin formica, an ant.] A neutral salt, composed of the formic acid and a base.
Formic
FOR'MIC, adjective [Latin formica, an ant.] Pertaining to ants; as the formic acid, the acid of ants.
Formication
FORMICA'TION, noun [Latin formicatio, from formico, or formica, an ant.]
A sensation of the body resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Formidable
FORM'IDABLE, adjective [Latin formidabilis, from formido, fear.]
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter or undertaking. It expresses less than terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrible, and frightful.
They seemed to fear the formidable sight.
I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable when you see so many pages behind.
Formidableness
FORM'IDABLENESS, noun The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
Formidably
FORM'IDABLY, adverb In a manner to impress fear.
Formless
FORM'LESS, adjective [from form.] Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Formula
FORM'ULA, 'ULE, noun [Latin]
Formulary
FORM'ULARY, noun [from Latin formula.]
1. A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers and the like; a book of precedents.
2. Prescribed form.
FORM'ULARY, adjective Stated; prescribed; ritual.
Fornicate
FORN'ICATE,
FORN'ICATED, adjective [Latin fornicatus, from fornix, an arch.] Arched; vaulted like an oven or furnace.
FORN'ICATE, verb intransitive [Latin fornicor, from fornix, a brothel.]
To commit lewdness, as an unmarried man or woman, or as a married man with an unmarried woman.
If a brahman fornicate with a Nayr woman, he shall not thereby lose his cast.
Fornicated
FORN'ICATED, a. [L. fornicatus, from fornix, an arch.] Arched; vaulted like an oven or furnace.
Fornication
FORNICA'TION, noun [Latin fornicatio.]
1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
2. Adultery. .
3. Incest. .
4. Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. , .
Fornicator
FORN'ICATOR, noun
1. An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal conversation with the other sex; also, a married man who has sexual commerce with an unmarried woman. [See Adultery.]
2. A lewd person.
3. An idolater.
Fornicatress
FORN'ICATRESS, noun An unmarried female guilty lewdness.
Forpass
FORP'ASS, verb intransitive To go by; to pass unnoticed. obsolete
Forpine
FORPI'NE, verb intransitive To pine or waste away. obsolete
Forray
FORRA'Y, verb transitive To ravage. obsolete
FORRA'Y, noun The act of ravaging. obsolete
Forsake
FORSA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense forsook; participle passive forsaken. See Seek .]
1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from. Friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
Forsake the foolish, and live. .
2. To abandon; to renounce; to reject.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments - .
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. .
3. To leave; to withdraw from; to fail. In anger, the color forsakes the cheeks. In severe trials, let not fortitude forsake you.
4. In scripture, God forsakes his people, when he withdraws his aid, or the light of his countenance.
Forsaken
FORSA'KEN, participle passive Deserted; left; abandoned.
Forsaker
FORSA'KER, noun One that forsakes or deserts.
Forsaking
FORSA'KING, participle present tense Leaving or deserting.
FORSA'KING, noun The act of deserting; dereliction.
Forsay
FORSA'Y, verb transitive To forbid; to renounce. obsolete
Forslack
FORSLACK', verb transitive To delay. obsolete
Forsooth
FORSOOTH', adverb
In truth; in fact; certainly; very well.
A fit man, forsooth to govern a realm.
It is generally used in an ironical or contemptuous sense.
Forster
FORS'TER, noun A forester.
Forswear
FORSWEAR, verb transitive preterit tense forswore; participle passive forsworn. See Swear and Answer.]
1. To reject or renounce upon oath.
2. To deny upon oath.
Like innocence, and as serenely bold as truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold.
To forswear one's self, is to swear falsely; to perjure one's self.
Thou shalt not forswear thyself. .
FORSWEAR, verb intransitive To swear falsely; to commit perjury.
Forswearer
FORSWEARER, noun One who rejects on oath; one who is perjured; one that swears a false oath.
Forswearing
FORSWEARING, participle present tense Denying on oath; swearing falsely.
Forswonk
FORSWONK', adjective Overlabored. obsolete
Forswore
FORSWORE, preterit tense of forswear.
Forsworn
FORSWORN, participle passive of forswear. Renounced on oath; perjured.
Forswornness
FORSWORNNESS, noun The state of being forsworn.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.