Forbidding (a.) Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
Forblack (a.) Very black.
Forboden () p. p. of Forbid.
Forbore () imp. of Forbear.
Forborne () p. p. of Forbear.
Forbruise (v. t.) To bruise sorely or exceedingly.
Forby (adv. & prep.) Near; hard by; along; past.
Forcarve (v. t.) To cut completely; to cut off.
Force (v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.
Force (n.) A waterfall; a cascade.
Force (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
Force (n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
Force (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
Force (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
Force (n.) Validity; efficacy.
Force (n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
Forced (imp. & p. p.) of Force
Forcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Force
Force (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
Force (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
Force (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
Force (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
Force (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
Force (n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
Force (n.) To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
Force (n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
Force (n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
Force (v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
Force (v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
Force (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Forced (a.) Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
Forceful (a.) Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
Forceless (a.) Having little or no force; feeble.
Forcemeat (n.) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
Forcement (n.) The act of forcing; compulsion.
Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
Forceps (n.) The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.
Forcer (n.) One who, or that which, forces or drives.
Forcer (n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
Forcer (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
Forcible (a.) Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
Forcible (a.) Violent; impetuous.
Forcible (a.) Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
Forcible-feeble (a.) Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
Forcibleness (n.) The quality of being forcible.
Forcibly (adv.) In a forcible manner.
Forcing (n.) The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
Forcing (n.) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.
Forcipal (a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
Forcipate (a.) Alt. of Forcipated
Forcipated (a.) Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.
Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.
Forcut (v. t.) To cut completely; to cut off.
Ford (v. i.) A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
Ford (v. i.) A stream; a current.
Forded (imp. & p. p.) of Ford
Fording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ford
Ford (v. t.) To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
Fordable (a.) Capable of being forded.
Fordless (a.) Without a ford.
Fordo (v. i.) To destroy; to undo; to ruin.
Fordo (v. i.) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
Fordone (a.) Undone; ruined.
Fordrive (v. t.) To drive about; to drive here and there.
Fordrunken (a.) Utterly drunk; very drunk.
Fordry (a.) Entirely dry; withered.
Fordwine (v. i.) To dwindle away; to disappear.
Fore (v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.
Fore (adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
Fore (adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.
Fore (adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
Fore (adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
Fore (n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
Fore (prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
Foreadmonish (v. t.) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
Foreadvise (v. t.) To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.
Forealleged (imp. & p. p.) of Foreallege
Forealleging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foreallege
Foreallege (v. t.) To allege or cite before.
Foreappoint (v. t.) To set, order, or appoint, beforehand.
Foreappointment (n.) Previous appointment; preordinantion.
Forearm (v. t.) To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.
Forearm (n.) That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
Forebeam (n.) The breast beam of a loom.
Forebear (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.
Foreboded (imp. & p. p.) of Forebode
Foreboding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forebode
Forebode (v. t.) To foretell.
Forebode (v. t.) To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
Forebode (v. i.) To fortell; to presage; to augur.
Forebode (n.) Prognostication; presage.
Forebodement (n.) The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
Foreboder (n.) One who forebodes.
Foreboding (n.) Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
Forebodingly (adv.) In a foreboding manner.
Forebrace (n.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
Forebrain (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.