Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 53

Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

Forge (n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

Forge (n.) To coin.

Forge (n.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

Forge (v. t.) To commit forgery.

Forge (v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.

Forge (v. t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Forgemen (pl. ) of Forgeman

Forgeman (n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

Forger (n. & v. t.) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

Forger (n. & v. t.) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

Forgeries (pl. ) of Forgery

Forgery (n.) The act of forging metal into shape.

Forgery (n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.

Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.

Forgot (imp.) of Forget

Forgat () of Forget

Forgotten (p. p.) of Forget

Forgot () of Forget

Forgetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forget

Forget (v. t.) To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.

Forget (v. t.) To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.

Forgetful (a.) Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.

Forgetful (a.) Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.

Forgetful (a.) Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.

Forgetfully (adv.) In a forgetful manner.

Forgetfulness (n.) The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

Forgetfulness (n.) Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.

Forgetfulness (n.) Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.

Forgetive (a.) Inventive; productive; capable.

Forget-me-not (n.) A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.

Forgettable (a.) Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.

Forgetter (n.) One who forgets; a heedless person.

Forgettingly (adv.) By forgetting.

Forging (n.) The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

Forging (n.) The act of counterfeiting.

Forging (n.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.

Forgivable (a.) Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.

Forgave (imp.) of Forgive

Forgiven (p. p.) of Forgive

Forgiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forgive

Forgive (v. t.) To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

Forgive (v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.

Forgive (v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.

Forgiveness (n.) The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.

Forgiveness (n.) Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.

Forgiver (n.) One who forgives.

Forgiving (a.) Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.

Forwent (imp.) of Forgo

Forgone (p. p.) of Forgo

Forgoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forgo

Forgo (v. i.) To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.

Forgot () imp. & p. p. of Forget.

Forgotten () p. p. of Forget.

Forhall (v. t.) To harass; to torment; to distress.

Forhend (v. t.) To seize upon.

Forinsecal (a.) Foreign; alien.

Forisfamiliated (imp. & p. p.) of Forisfamiliate

Forisfamiliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forisfamiliate

Forisfamiliate (v. t.) Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority.

Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.

Forisfamiliation (n.) The act of forisfamiliating.

Fork (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

Fork (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

Fork (n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

Fork (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

Fork (n.) The gibbet.

Forked (imp. & p. p.) of Fork

Forking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fork

Fork (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.

Fork (v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Fork (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Forkbeard (n.) A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

Forkbeard (n.) The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

Forked (a.) Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.

Forked (a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.

Forkerve (v. t.) See Forcarve, v. t.

Forkiness (n.) The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.

Forkless (a.) Having no fork.

Forktail (n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

Forktail (n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Forky (a.) Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.

Forlaft () p. p. of Forleave.

Forlay (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to ambush.

Forleave (v. t.) To leave off wholly.

Forlend (v. t.) To give up wholly.

Forlore (p. p.) of Forlese

Forlorn () of Forlese

Forlese (v. t.) To lose utterly.

Forlet (v. t.) To give up; to leave; to abandon.

Forlie (v. i.) See Forelie.

Forlore () imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese.

Forlorn (v. t.) Deserted; abandoned; lost.

Forlorn (v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.

Forlorn (n.) A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

Forlorn (n.) A forlorn hope; a vanguard.

Forlornly (adv.) In a forlorn manner.

Forlornness (n.) State of being forlorn.

Forlye (v. i.) Same as Forlie.

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