FOALBIT, noun A plant.

FOALFOOT, noun The colt's-foot, Tussilago.

FOAM, noun [Latin fumo, to smoke, to foam ]

Froth; spume; the substance which is formed on the surface of liquors by fermentation or violent agitation, consisting of bubbles.

FOAM, verb intransitive

1. To froth; to gather foam The billows foam A horse foams at the mouth when violently heated.

2. To be in a rage; to be violently agitated.

He foameth and gnasheth with his teeth. Mark 9:18.

FOAM, verb transitive To throw out with rage or violence; with out.

FOAMing out their own shame. Jude 1:13.

FOAMING, participle present tense Frothing; fuming.

FOAMINGLY, adverb Frothily.

FOAMY, adjective Covered with foam; frothy.

Behold how high the foamy billows ride!

FOB, noun A little pocket for a watch.

FOB, verb transitive To cheat; to trick; to impose on.

To fob off, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick. [A low word.]

FOB'BED, participle passive Cheated; imposed on.

FOB'BING, participle present tense Cheating; imposing on.

FO'CAL, adjective [from Latin focus.] Belonging to a focus; as a focal point; focal distance.

FO'CIL, noun The greater focil is the ulna or tibia, the greater bone of the fore-arm or leg. The lesser focil is the radius or fibula, the lesser bone of the fore-arm or leg.

FO'CUS, noun plural focuses, or foci. [Latin focus a fire, the hearth.]

1. In optics, a point in which any number of rays of light meet, after being reflected or refracted; as the focus of a lens.

2. In geometry and conic sections, a certain point in the parabola, ellipsis and hyperbola, where rays reflected from all parts of these curves, concur or meet.

The focus of an ellipsis, is a point towards each end of the longer axis, from which two right lines drawn to any point in the circumference, shall together be equal to the longer axis.

The focus of a parabola, is a point in the axis within the figure, and distant from the vertex by the fourth part of the parameter.

The focus of a hyperbola, is a point in the principal axis, within the opposite hyperbolas, from which if any two lines are drawn, meeting in either of the opposite hyperbolas, the difference will be equal to the principal axis.

3. A central point; point of concentration.

FOD'DER, noun

1. Food or dry food for cattle, horses and sheep, as hay, straw and other kinds of vegetables. The word is never applied to pasture.

2. In mining, a measure containing 20 hundred, or 22 1/2 hundred.

FOD'DER, verb transitive To feed with dry food, or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc. Farmers fodder their cattle twice or thrice in a day.

FOD'DERED, participle passive Fed with dry food, or cut grass, etc.; as, to fodder cows.

FOD'DERER, noun He who fodders cattle.

FOD'DERING, participle present tense Feeding with dry food, etc.

FO'DIENT, adjective [Latin fodio, to dig.] Digging; throwing up with a spade. [Little used.]

FOE, noun fo. [See Fiend.]

1. An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.

A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36.

2. An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.

Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes. 1 Chronicles 21:12.

3. foe like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.

4. An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.

FOE, verb transitive To treat as an enemy. obsolete

FOEHOOD, noun Enmity. [Not in use.]

FOELIKE, adjective Like an enemy.

FOEMAN, noun An enemy in war. obsolete

FOETUS. [See Fetus.]

FOG, noun

1. A dense watery vapor, exhaled from the earth, or from rivers and lakes, or generated in the atmosphere near the earth. it differs from mist, which is rain in very small drops.

2. A cloud of dust or smoke.

FOG, noun

After-grass; a second growth of grass; but it signifies also long grass that remains on land.

Dead grass, remaining on land during winter, is called in New England, the old tore.

FOG'BANK, noun At sea, an appearance in hazy weather sometimes resembling land at a distance, but which vanishes as it is approached.

FOG'GAGE, noun Rank grass not consumed or mowed in summer.

FOG'GINESS, noun [from foggy.] The state of being foggy; a state of the air filled with watery exhalations.

FOG'GY, adjective [from fog.]

1. Filled or abounding with fog or watery exhalations; as a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.

2. Cloudy; misty; damp with humid vapors.

3. Producing frequent fogs; as a foggy climate.

4. Dull; stupid; clouded in understanding.

FOH, an exclamation of abhorrence or contempt, the same as poh and fy.

FOI'BLE, adjective Weak. [Not used.]

FOI'BLE, noun [See Feeble.] A particular moral weakness; a failing. When we speak of a man's foible in the singular, which is also called his weak side, we refer to a predominant failing. We use also the plural, foibles, to denote moral failings or defects. It is wise in every man to know his own foibles.

FOIL, verb transitive

1. To frustrate; to defeat; to render vain or nugatory, as an effort or attempt. The enemy attempted to pass the river, but was foiled. He foiled his adversaries.

And by a mortal man at length am foiled.

2. To blunt; to dull.

When light wing'd toys of feathered cupid foil -

3. To defeat; to interrupt, or to render imperceptible; as, to foil the scent in a chase.

FOIL, noun Defeat; frustration; the failure of success when on the point of being secured; miscarriage.

Death never won a stake with greater toil, nor e'er was fate to near a foil

FOIL, noun A blunt sword, or one that has a button at the end covered with leather; used in fencing.

Isocrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.

FOIL, noun [Latin folium. Gr.]

1. A leaf or thin plate of metal used in gilding.

2. Among jewelers, a thin leaf of metal placed under precious stones, to make them appear transparent, and to give them a particular color, as the stone appears to be of the color of the foil Hence,

3. Any thing of another color, or of different qualities, which serves to adorn, or set off another thing to advantage.

Hector has a foil to set him off.

4. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a locking glass, to cause reflection.

FOIL'ED, participle passive Frustrated; defeated.

FOIL'ER, noun One who frustrates another, and gains an advantage himself.

FOIL'ING, participle present tense Defeating; frustrating; disappointing of success.

FOIL'ING, noun Among hunters, the slight mark of a passing deer on the grass.

FOIN, verb transitive [Latin pungo. The sense is to push, thrust, shoot.]

1. To push in fencing.

2. To prick; to sting. [Not in use.]

FOIN, noun A push; a thrust.

FOIN'ING, participle present tense Pushing; thrusting.

FOIN'INGLY, adverb In a pushing manner.

FOIS'ON, noun [Latin fusio.] Plenty; abundance. [Not used.]

FOIST, verb transitive

To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant.

Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption.

FOIST, noun A light and fast sailing ship. obsolete

FOIST'ED, participle passive Inserted wrongfully.

FOIST'ER, noun One who inserts without authority.

FOIST'IED, a Mustied. [See Fusty.]

FOIST'INESS, noun Fustiness, which see.

FOIST'ING, participle present tense Inserting surreptitiously or without authority.

FOIST'Y, a Fusty, which see.

FOLD, noun [See the verb, to fold ]

1. A pen or inclosure for sheep; a place where a flock of sheep is kept, whether in the field or under shelter.

2. A flock of sheep. Hence in a scriptural sense, the church, the flock of the Shepherd of Israel.

Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold John 10:16.

3. A limit. [Not in use.]

FOLD, noun

1. The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; complication; a plait; one part turned or bent and laid on another; as a fold of linen.

2. In composition, the same quantity added; as two fold four fold ten fold that is, twice as much, four times as much, ten times as much.

FOLD, verb transitive [Heb. The primary sense is to fall, or to lay, to set, throw or press together.]

1. To double; to lap or lay in plaits; as, to fold a piece of cloth.

2. To double and insert one part in another; as, to fold a letter.

3. To double or lay together, as the arms. He folds his arms in despair.

4. To confine sheep in a fold

FOLD, verb intransitive To close over another of the same kind; as, the leaves of the door fold

FOLDAGE, noun The right of folding sheep.

FOLDED, participle passive Doubled; laid in plaits; complicated; kept in a fold.

FOLDER, noun

1. An instrument used in folding paper.

2. One that folds.

FOLDING, participle present tense

1. Doubling; laying in plaits; keeping in a fold.

2. adjective Doubling; that may close over another, or that consists of leaves which may close one over another; as a folding door.

FOLDING, noun

1. A fold; a doubling.

2. Among farmers, the keeping of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.

FOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin foliaceus, from folium, a leaf. See Foil.]

1. Leafy; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as a foliaceous spike. foliaceous glands are those situated on leaves.

2. Consisting of leaves or thin lamins; having the form of a leaf or plate; as foliaceous spar.

FO'LIAGE, noun [Latin folium, a leaf. See Foil.]

1. Leaves in general; as a tree of beautiful foliage

2. A cluster of leaves, flowers and branches; particularly, the representation of leaves, flowers and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.

FO'LIAGE, verb transitive To work or to form into the representation of leaves.

FO'LIAGED, adjective Furnished with foliage.

FO'LIATE, verb transitive [Latin foliatus, from folium, a leaf. Gr.]

1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate or lamin.

2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver, etc.; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

FO'LIATE, adjective In botany, leafy; furnished with leaves; as a foliate stalk.

FO'LIATED, participle passive

1. Spread or covered with a thin plate or foil.

2. In mineralogy, consisting of plates; resembling or in the form of a plate; lamellar; as a foliated fracture.

Minerals that consist of grains, and are at the same time foliated are called granularly foliated

FO'LIATING, participle present tense Covering with a leaf or foil.

FOLIA'TION, noun [Latin foliatio.]

1. In botany, the leafing of plants; vernation; the disposition of the nascent leaves within the bud.

2. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf or foil

3. The act or operation of spreading foil over the back side of a mirror or looking-glass.

FO'LIATURE, noun The state of being beaten into foil.

FO'LIER, noun Goldsmith's foil.

FOLIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin folium, leaf, and fero, to bear.] Producing leaves.

FO'LIO, noun [Latin folium, a leaf, in folio ]

1. A book of the largest size, formed by once doubling a sheet of paper.

2. Among merchants, a page, or rather both the right and left hand pages of an account book, expressed by the same figure.

FO'LIOLE, noun [from Latin folium, a leaf.] A leaflet; one of the single leaves, which together constitute a compound leaf.

FO'LIOMORT, adjective [Latin folium mortuum.] Of a dark yellow color, or that of a faded leaf; filemot.

FO'LIOUS, adjective

1. Leafy; thin; unsubstantial.

2. In botany, having leaves intermixed with the flowers.

FOLK, noun foke. [Latin vulgus. The sense is a crowd, from collecting or pressing, not from following, but from the same root, as to follow is to press toward. Gr. Originally and properly it had no plural, being a collective noun; but in modern use, in America, it has lost its singular number, and we hear it only in the plural. It is a colloquial word, not admissible into elegant style.]

1. People in general, or any part of them without distinction. What do folks say respecting the war? Men love to talk about the affairs of other folks.

2. Certain people, discriminated from others; as old folks, and young folks. Children sometimes call their parents, the old folks. So we say sick folks; poor folks; proud folks.

3. In scripture, the singular number is used; as a few sick folk; impotent folk Mark 6:5. John 5:3.

4. Animals.

The coneys are but a feeble folk Proverbs 30:26.

FOLKLAND, noun In English law, copyhold land; land held by the common people, at the will of the lord.

FOLKMOTE, noun

An assembly of the people, or of bishops, thanes, aldermen and freemen, to consult respecting public affairs; an annual convention of the people, answering in some measure, to a modern parliament; a word used in England before the Norman conquest, after which, the national Council was called a parliament.

But some authors allege that the folkmote was an inferior meeting or court.

FOL'LICLE, noun [Latin folliculus, from follis, a bag or bellows.]

1. In botany, a univalvular pericarp; a seed vessel opening on one side longitudinally, and having the seeds loose in it.

2. An air bag; a vessel distended with air; as at the root in Utricularia, and on the leaves in Aldrovanda.

3. A little bag, in animal bodies; a gland; a folding; a cavity.

FOLLIC'ULOUS, adjective Having or producing follicles.

FOL'LIFUL, adjective Full of folly. [Not used.]

FOL'LOW, verb transitive

1. To go after or behind; to walk, ride or move behind, but in the same direction. Soldiers will usually follow a brave officer.

2. To pursue; to chase; as an enemy, or as game.

3. To accompany; to attend in a journey.

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode on the camels, and followed the man. Genesis 24:5.

4. To accompany; to be of the same company; to attend, for any purpose. Luke 5:27.

5. To succeed in order of time; to come after; as a storm is followed by a calm.

Signs following signs lead on the mighty year.

6. To be consequential; to result from, as effect from a cause. Intemperance is often followed by disease or poverty, or by both.

7. To result from, as an inference or deduction. It follows from these facts that the accused is guilty.

8. To pursue with the eye; to keep the eyes fixed on a moving body. He followed or his eyes followed the ship, till it was beyond sight.

He followed with his eyes the fleeting shade.

9. To imitate; to copy; as, to follow a pattern or model; to follow fashion.

10. To embrace; to adopt and maintain; to have or entertain like opinions; to think or believe like another; as, to follow the opinions and tenets of a philsophic sect; to follow Plato.

11. To obey; to observe; to practice; to act in conformity to. It is our duty to follow the commands of Christ. Good soldiers follow the orders of their general; good servants follow the directions of their master.

12. To pursue as an object of desire; to endeavor to obtain.

Follow peace with all men. Hebrews 12:14.

13. To use; to practice; to make the chief business; as, to follow the trade of a carpenter; to follow the profession of law.

14. To adhere to; to side with.

The house of Judah followed David. 2 Samuel 2:10.

15. To adhere to; to honor; to worship; to serve.

If the Lord be God, follow him. 1 Kings 18:21.

16. To be led or guided by.

Wo to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing. Ezekiel 13:3.

17. To move on in the same course or direction; to be guided by; as, to follow a track or course.

FOL'LOW, verb intransitive

1. To come after another.

The famine - shall follow close after you. Jeremiah 42:16.

2. To attend; to accompany.

3. To be posterior in time; as following ages.

4. To be consequential, as effect to cause. From such measures, great mischiefs must follow

5. To result, as an inference. The facts may be admitted, but the inference drawn from them does not follow

To follow on, to continue pursuit or endeavor; to persevere.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.

Hosea 6.

FOL'LOWED, participle passive Pursued; succeeded; accompanied; attended; imitated; obeyed; observed; practiced; adhered to.

FOL'LOWER, noun

1. One who comes, goes or moves after another, in the same course.

2. One that takes another as his guide in doctrines, opinions or example; one who receives the opinions, and imitates the example of another; an adherent; an imitator.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:12.

3. One who obeys, worships and honors.

Be ye followers of God, as dear children. Ephesians 5:1.

4. An adherent; a disciple; one who embraces the same system; as a follower of Plato.

5. An attendant; a companion; an associate or a dependent. The warrior distributed the plunder among his followers.

No follower but a friend.

6. One under the command of another.

7. One of the same faction or party.

FOL'LOWING, participle present tense Coming or going after or behind; pursuing; attending; imitating; succeeding in time; resulting from as an effect or an inference; adhering to; obeying, observing; using, practicing; proceeding in the same course.

FOL'LY, noun [See Fool.]

1. Weakness of intellect; imbecility of mind. want of understanding.

A fool layeth open his folly Proverbs 13:16.

2. A weak or absurd act not highly criminal; an act which is inconsistent with the dictates of reason, or with the ordinary rules of prudence. In this sense it may be used in the singular, but is generally in the plural. Hence we speak of the follies of youth.

3. An absurd act which is highly sinful; any conduct contrary to the laws of God or man; sin; scandalous crimes; that which violates moral precepts and dishonors the offender. Shechem wrought folly in Israel. Achan wrought folly in Israel. Genesis 34:7. Joshua 7:15.

4. Criminal weakness; depravity of mind.

FO'MAHANT, noun A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Aquarius.

FOMENT', verb transitive [Latin fomento, from foveo, to warm.]

1. To apply warm lotions to; to bathe with warm medicated liquors, or with flannel dipped in warm water.

2. To cherish with heat; to encourage growth. [Not usual.]

3. To encourage; to abet; to cherish and promote by excitements; in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.

So we say, to foment troubles or disturbances; to foment intestine broils.

FOMENTA'TION, noun

1. The act of applying warm liquors to a part of the body, by means of flannels dipped in hot water or medicated decoctions, for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

2. The lotion applied, or to be applied to a diseased part.

3. Excitation; instigation, encouragement.

FOMENT'ED, participle passive Bathed with warm lotions; encouraged.

FOMENT'ER, noun One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as a fomenter of sedition.

FOMENT'ING, participle present tense

1. Applying warm lotions.

2. Encouraging; abetting; promoting.

FON, noun A fool; an idiot. obsolete

FOND, adjective

1. Foolish; silly; weak; indiscreet; imprudent;

Grant I may never prove so fond

To trust man on his oath or bond.

FOND thoughts may fall into some idle brain.

2. Foolishly tender and loving; doting; weakly indulgent; as a fond mother or wife.

3. Much pleased; loving ardently; delighted with. A child is fond of play; a gentleman is fond of his sports, or of his country seat. In present usage, fond does not always imply weakness or folly.

4. Relishing highly. The epicure is fond of high seasoned food. Multitudes of men are too fond of strong drink.

5. Trifling; valued by folly. [Little used.]

FOND, verb transitive To treat with great indulgence or tenderness; to caress; to cocker.

The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

FOND is thus used by the poets only. We now use fondle.

FOND, verb intransitive To be fond of; to be in love with; to dote on. [Little used.]

FOND'LE, verb transitive To treat with tenderness; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.

FOND'LED, participle passive Treated with affection; caressed.

FOND'LER, noun One who fondles.

FOND'LING, participle present tense Caressing; treating with tenderness.

FOND'LING, noun A person or thing fondled or caressed.

FOND'LY, adverb

1. Foolishly; weakly; imprudently; with indiscreet affection.

Fondly we think we merit honor then,

When we but praise ourselves in other men.

2. With great or extreme affection. We fondly embrace those who are dear to us.

FOND'NESS, noun

1. Foolishness; weakness; want of sense or judgment. obsolete

2. Foolish tenderness.

3. Tender passion; warm affection.

Her fondness for a certain earl began when I was but a girl.

4. Strong inclination or propensity; as a fondness for vice or sin.

5. Strong appetite or relish; as fondness for ardent spirit, or for a particular kind of food.

[It is now used chiefly in the three latter senses.]

FONT, noun [Latin fundo, to pour out.]

A large basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing children or other persons in the church.

FONT, noun [Latin fundo, to pour out.]

A complete assortment of printing types of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that letter.

FONT'AL, adjective Pertaining to a fount, fountain, source or origin.

FONT'ANEL, noun

1. An issue for the discharge of humors from the body.

2. A vacancy in the infant cranium, between the frontal and parietal bones, and also between the parietal and occipital, at the two extremities of the sagittal suture.

FONTANGE, noun fontanj'.

A knot of ribbons on the top of a head-dress.

FOOD, noun [See Feed.]

1. In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.

2. Meat; aliment; flesh or vegetables eaten for sustaining human life; victuals; provisions; whatever is or may be eaten for nourishment.

Feed me with food convenient for me. Proverbs 30:8.

3. Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, etc. Manuring substances furnish plants with food

4. Something that sustains, nourishes and augments. Flattery is the food of vanity.

FOOD, verb transitive To feed. [Not in use.]

FOOD'FUL, adjective Supplying food; full of food.

FOOD'LESS, adjective Without food; destitute of provisions; barren.

FOOD'Y, adjective Eatable; fit for food. [Not used.]

FOOL, noun [Heb.]

1. One who is destitute of reason, or the common powers of understanding; an idiot. Some persons are born fools, and are called natural fools; others may become fools by some injury done to the brain.

2. In common language, a person who is somewhat deficient in intellect, but not an idiot; or a person who acts absurdly; one who does not exercise his reason; one who pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

3. In scripture, fool is often used for a wicked or depraved person; one who acts contrary to sound wisdom in his moral deportment; one who follows his own inclinations, who prefers trifling and temporary pleasures to the service of God and eternal happiness.

The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. Psalms 14:1.

4. A weak christian; a godly person who has much remaining sin and unbelief.

O fools, and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have written. Luke 24:25.

Also, one who is accounted or called a fool by ungodly men. 1 Corinthians 4:10.

5. A term of indignity and reproach.

To be thought knowing, you must first put the fool upon all mankind.

6. One who counterfeits folly; a buffoon; as a king's fool

I scorn, although their drudge, to be their fool or jester.

1. To play the fool to act the buffoon; to jest; to make sport.

2. To act like one void of understanding.

To put the fool on, to impose on; to delude.

To make a fool of, to frustrate; to defeat; to disappoint.

FOOL, verb intransitive To trifle; to toy; to spend time in idleness, sport or mirth.

Is this a time for fooling?

FOOL, verb transitive

1. To treat with contempt; to disappoint; to defeat; to frustrate; to deceive; to impose on.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; for fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.

2. To infatuate; to make foolish.

3. To cheat; as, to fool one out of his money.

1. To fool away, to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage; as, to fool away time.

2. To spend for things of no value or use; to expend improvidently; as, to fool away money.

FOOL, noun A liquid made of gooseberries scalded and pounded, with cream.

FOOL'BORN adjective Foolish from the birth.

FOOL'ED, participle passive Disappointed; defeated; deceived; imposed on.

FOOL'ERY, noun

1. The practice of folly; habitual folly; attention to trifles.

2. An act of folly or weakness.

3. Object of folly.

FOOL'HAPPY, adjective Lucky without judgment or contrivance.

FOOLH'ARDINESS, noun Courage without sense or judgment; mad rashness.

FOOLH'ARDISE, noun Foolhardiness. [Not in use.]

FOOLH'ARDY, adjective [fool and hardy.] Daring without judgment; madly rash and adventurous; foolishly bold.

FOOL'ING, participle present tense Defeating; disappointing; deceiving.

FOOL'ISH, adjective

1. Void of understanding or sound judgment; weak in intellect; applied to general character.

2. Unwise; imprudent; acting without judgment or discretion in particular things.

3. Proceeding from folly, or marked with folly; silly; vain; trifling.

But foolish questions avoid. 2 Timothy 2:23.

4. Ridiculous; despicable.

A foolish figure he must make.

5. In scripture, wicked; sinful; acting without regard to the divine law and glory, or to one's own eternal happiness.

O foolish Galatians - Galatians 3:1.

6. Proceeding from depravity; sinful; as foolish lusts. 1 Timothy 6:9.

FOOL'ISHLY, adverb

1. Weakly; without understanding or judgment; unwisely; indiscreetly.

2. Wickedly; sinfully.

I have done very foolishly 2 Samuel 24:10.

FOOL'ISHNESS, noun

1. Folly; want of understanding.

2. Foolish practice; want of wisdom or good judgment.

3. In a scriptural sense, absurdity; folly.

The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness 1 Corinthians 1:18.

FOOLS'CAP, noun [Latin scapus, or folio and shape.] A kind of paper of small size.

FOOL'STONES, noun A plant, the Orchis.

FOOL'TRAP, noun A trap to catch fools; as a fly trap.

FOOT, noun plural feet. [Latin pes, pedis. Probably this word is allied to the Gr. to walk, to tread. Eng. verb, to tread.]

1. In animal bodies, the lower extremity of the leg; the part of the leg which treads the earth in standing or walking, and by which the animal is sustained and enabled to step.

2. That which bears some resemblance to an animal's foot in shape or office; the lower end of any thing that supports a body; as the foot of a table.

3. The lower part; the base; as the foot of a column or of a mountain.

4. The lower part; the bottom; as the foot of an account; the foot of a sail.

5. Foundation; condition; state. We are not on the same foot with our fellow citizens. In this sense, it is more common, in America, to use footing; and in this sense the plural is not used.

6. Plan of establishment; fundamental principles. Our constitution may hereafter be placed on a better foot

[In this sense the plural is not used.]

7. In military language, soldiers who march and fight on foot; infantry, as distinguished from cavalry.

[In this sense the plural is not used.]

8. A measure consisting of twelve inches; supposed to be taken from the length of a man's foot Geometricians divide the foot into 10 digits, and the digit into 10 lines.

9. In poetry, a certain number of syllables, constituting part of a verse; as the iambus, the dactyl, and the spondee.

10. Step; pace.

11. Level; par. obsolete

12. The part of a stocking or boot which receives the foot

By foot or rather, on foot by walking, as to go or pass on foot; or by fording, as to pass a stream on foot See the next definition.

To set on foot to originate; to begin; to put in motion; as, to set on foot a subscription. Hence, to be on foot is to be in motion, action or process of execution.

FOOT, verb intransitive

1. To dance; to tread to measure or music; to skip.

2. To walk; opposed to ride or fly. In this sense, the word is commonly followed by it.

If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

FOOT, verb transitive

1. To kick; to strike with the foot; to spurn.

2. To settle; to begin to fix. [Little used.]

3. To tread; as, to foot the green.

4. To add the numbers in a column, and set the sum at the foot; as, to foot an account.

5. To seize and hold with the foot [Not used.]

6. To add or make a foot; as, to foot a stocking or boot.

FOOT'BALL, noun

1. A ball consisting of an inflated bladder, cased in leather, to be driven by the foot.

2. The sport or practice of kicking the football

FOOT'BAND, noun A band of infantry.

FOOT'BOY, noun A menial; an attendant in livery.

FOOT'BREADTH, noun The breadth of the foot. Deuteronomy 2:1.

FOOT'BRIDGE, noun A narrow bridge for foot passengers.

FOOT'CLOTH, noun A sumpter cloth.

FOOT'ED, participle passive Kicked; trod; summed up; furnished with a foot, as a stocking.

FOOT'ED, adjective Shaped in the foot; as footed like a goat.

FOOT'FALL, noun A trip or stumble.

FOOT'FIGHT, noun A conflict by persons on foot, in opposition to a fight on horseback.

FOOT'GU'ARDS, noun plural Guards of infantry.

FOOT'HALT, noun A disease incident to sheep, and said to proceed from a worm, which enters between the claws.

FOOT'HOLD, noun That which sustains the feet firmly and prevents them from slipping of moving; that on which one may tread or rest securely.

FOOT'HOT, adverb Immediately; a word borrowed from hunting.

FOOT'ING, participle present tense Dancing; treading; settling; adding a new foot.

FOOT'ING, noun

1. Ground for the foot; that which sustains; firm foundation to stand on

In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.

2. Support; root.

3. Basis; foundation.

4. Place; stable position.

5. Permanent settlement. Let not these evils gain footing

6. Tread; step; walk.

7. Dance; tread to measure.

8. Steps; road; track. [Little used.]

9. State; condition; settlement. Place both parties on an equal footing

FOOT'LICKER, noun A mean flatterer; a sycophant; a fawner.

FOOT'MAN, noun

1. A soldier who marches and fights on foot.

2. A menial servant; a runner; a servant in livery.

FOOT'MANSHIP, noun The art or faculty of a runner.

FOOT'MANTLE, noun A garment to keep the gown clean in riding.

FOOT'PACE, noun A slow step, as in walking; a broad stair.

FOOT'PAD, noun A highwayman or robber on foot.

FOOT'P'ATH, noun A narrow path or way for foot passengers only.

FOOT'PLOW, noun A kind of swing-plow.

FOOT'POST, noun A post or messenger that travels on foot.

FOOT'ROPE, noun The lower boltrope, to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. Also, a horse or rope to support men when reefing, etc.

FOOT'ROT, noun An ulcer in the feet of sheep.

FOOT'SOLDIER, noun A soldier that serves on foot.

FOOTSTALK, noun [foot and stalk.] In botany, a petiole; a partial stem supporting the leaf, or connecting it with the stem or branch. Sometimes, but rarely, the same footstalk supports both the leaf and fructification, as in Turnera and Hibiscus.

FOOT'STALL, noun A woman's stirrup.

FOOT'STEP, noun

1. A track; the mark or impression of the foot.

2. Token; mark; visible sign of a course pursued; as the footsteps of divine wisdom.

1. Footsteps, plural, example; as, follow the footsteps of good men.

2. Way; course. Psalms 78:1.

FOOT'STOOL, noun A stool for the feet; that which supports the feet of one when sitting.

To make enemies a footstool is to reduce them to entire subjection. Psalms 110:1.

FOOT'WALING, noun The whole inside planks or lining of a ship.

FOP, noun [The Latin voppa, a senseless fellow, is evidently from the same root, with the sense of emptiness or lightness.]

A vain man of weak understanding and much ostentation; one whose ambition is to gain admiration by showy dress and pertness; a gay trifling man; a coxcomb.

FOP'DOODLE, noun An insignificant fellow. [Vulgar and not used.]

FOP'LING,

n. A petty fop.

FOP'PERY, noun

1. Affectation of show or importance; showy folly; as the foppery of dress or of manners.

2. Folly; impertinence.

Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my sober house.

3. Foolery; vain or idle practice; idle affectation.

FOP'PISH, adjective

1. Vain of dress; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; dressing in the extreme of fashion.

2. Vain; trifling; affected in manners.

FOP'PISHLY, adverb With vain ostentation of dress; in a trifling or affected manner.

FOP'PISHNESS, noun Vanity and extravagance in dress; showy vanity.

FOR, preposition [Latin per.; The English, for; to forbid. for corresponds in sense with the Latin pro, as fore does with proe, but pro and proe are probably contracted from prod, proed. The Latin por, in composition, as in porrigo, is probably contracted from porro, Gr. which is the English far. The Gr. are from the same root. The radical sense of for is to go, to pass, to advance, to reach or stretch.]

1. Against; in the place of; as a substitute or equivalent, noting equal value or satisfactory compensation, either in barter and sale, in contract, or in punishment. 'And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for flocks, and for the cattle of the herds; ' that is, according to the original, he gave them bread against horses like the Gr. Genesis 48:17.

Buy us and our land for bread. Genesis 47:19.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Exodus 21:2.

2. In the place of; instead of; noting substitution of persons, or agency of one in the place of another with equivalent authority. An attorney is empowered to act for his principal. Will you take a letter and deliver it for me at the post office? that is, in my place, or for my benefit.

3. In exchange of; noting one thing taken or given in place of another; as, to quit the profession of law for that of a clergyman.

4. In the place of; instead of; as, to translate a poem line for line.

5. In the character of; noting resemblance; a sense derived from substitution or standing in the place of, like in the Greek.

If a man can be fully assured of any thing for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truth?

But let her go for an ungrateful woman.

I hear for certain, and do speak the truth.

He quivered with his feet and lay for dead.

6. Towards; with the intention of going to.

We sailed directly for Genoa, and had a fair wind.

So we say, a ship is bound for or to France.

7. In advantage of; for the sake of; on account of; that is, towards, noting use, benefit or purpose.

An ant is a wise creature for itself. Shall I think the world was made for one, and men are born for kings, as beasts for men, not for protection, but to be devoured.

8. Conducive to; beneficial to; in favor of.

It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate.

9. Leading or inducing to, as a motive.

There is a natural immutable, and eternal reason for that which we call virtue, and against that which we call vice.

10. Noting arrival, meeting, coming or possession. Wait patiently for an expected good. So in the phrases, looking for staying for

11. Towards the obtaining of; in order to the arrival at or possession of. After all our exertions, we depend on divine aid for success.

12. Against; in opposition to; with a tendency to resist and destroy; as a remedy for the headache or toothache. Alkalies are good for the heartburn. So we say, to provide clothes or stores for winter, or against winter.

13. Against or on account of; in prevention of.

She wrapped him close for catching cold.

And, for the time shall not seem tedious -

This use is nearly obsolete. The sense however is derived from meeting, opposing, as in number 12.

14. Because; on account of; by reason of. He cried out for anguish. I cannot go for want of time. for this cause, I cannot believe the report.

That which we for our unworthiness are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God for the worthiness of his son would notwithstanding vouchsafe to grant.

Edward and Richard, with fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath, are at our backs.

How to choose dogs for scent or speed.

FOR as much as it is a fundamental law -

15. With respect or regard to; on the part of.

It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters.

Thus much for the beginning and progress of the deluge.

So we say, for me, for myself, or as for me, I have no anxiety, but for you I have apprehensions; all implying towards or on the side of.

16. Through a certain space; during a certain time; as, to travel for three days; to sail for seven weeks; he holds his office for life; he traveled on sand for ten miles together. These senses seem to imply passing, the proper sense of for

17. In quest of; in order to obtain; as, to search for arguments; to recur to antiquity for examples. See number 11.

18. According to; as far as.

Chimists have not been able, for aught is vulgarly known, by fire alone to separate true sulphur from antimony.

19. Noting meeting, coming together, or reception. I am ready for you; that is, I am ready to meet or receive you.

20. Towards; of tendency to; as an inclination for drink.

21. In favor of; on the part or side of; that is, towards or inclined to. One is for a free government; another is for a limited monarchy.

Aristotle is for poetical justice.

22. With a view to obtain; in order to possess. He writes for money, or for fame; that is, towards meeting, or to have in return, as a reward.

23. Towards; with tendency to, or in favor of. It is for his honor to retire from office. It is for our quiet to have few intimate connections.

24. Notwithstanding; against; in opposition to. The fact may be so, for any thing that has yet appeared. The task is great, but for all that, I shall not be deterred from undertaking it. This is a different application of the sense of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4.

The writer will do what she pleases for all me.

25. for the use of; to be used in; that is, towards, noting advantage.

The oak for nothing ill, the osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill.

26. In recompense of; in return of.

Now, for so many glorious actions done, for peace at home, and for the public wealth, I mean to crown a bowl for Caesar's health. [See Numbers 1:44]

27. In proportion to; or rather, looking towards, regarding. He is tall for one of his years, or tall for his age.

28. By means of.

Moral consideration can no way move the sensible appetite, were it not for the will.

29. By the want of.

The inhabitants suffered severely both for provisions and fuel.

30. for my life or heart, though my life were to be given in exchange, or as the price of purchase. I cannot, for my life, understand the man. Numbers 1:44.

31. for to, denoting purpose. for was anciently placed before the infinitives of verbs, and the use is correct, but now obsolete except in vulgar language. I came for to see you; pour vous voir.

FOR, conjunction

1. The word by which a reason is introduced of something before advanced. 'That ye may be the children of your father who is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good.' In such sentences, for has the sense of because, by reason that, as in No.14; with this difference that in No.14, the word precedes a single noun, and here it precedes a sentence or clause; but the phrase seems to be elliptical, for this cause or reason, which follows, he maketh his sun to rise, etc. In Romans 13:6, we find the word in both its applications, 'For, for this cause ye pay tribute also -; ' the first for referring to the sentence following; the latter to the noun cause.

2. Because; on this account that; properly, for that.

FOR as much, compounded, forasmuch, is equivalent to, in regard to that, in consideration of. Forasmuch as the thirst is intolerable, the patient may be indulged in a little drink.

FOR'AGE, noun [Latin voro.]

1. Food of any kind for horses and cattle, as grass; pasture, hay, corn and oats.

2. The act of providing forage

Col. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.

If the forage is to be made at a distance from the camp -

3. Search for provisions; the act of feeding abroad.

FOR'AGE, verb intransitive

1. To collect food for horses and cattle, by wandering about and feeding or stripping the country.

2. To wander far; to rove. obsolete

3. To ravage; to feed on spoil.

FOR'AGE, verb transitive To strip of provisions for horses, etc.

FOR'AGER, noun One that goes in search of food for horses or cattle.

FOR'AGING, participle present tense or adjective Collecting provisions for horses and cattle, or wandering in search of food; ravaging; stripping. The general sent out a foraging party, with a guard.

FOR'AGING, noun An inroad or incursion for forage or plunder.

FORAM'INOUS, adjective [Latin foramen, a hole, from foro, to bore.]

Full of holes; perforated in many places; porous. [Little used.]

FOR, as a prefix to verbs, has usually the force of a negative or privative, denoting against, that is, before, or away, aside.

FORBAD', preterit tense of forbid.

FORBA'THE, verb transitive To bathe. [Not in use.]

FORBEAR, verb intransitive preterit tense forbore; participle passive forborne.

1. To stop; to cease; to hold from proceeding; as, forbear to repeat these reproachful words.

2. To pause; to delay; as, forbear a while.

3. To abstain; to omit; to hold one's self from motion or entering on an affair.

Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? 1 Kings 22:6.

4. To refuse; to decline.

Whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear Ezekiel 2:5.

5. To be patient; to restrain from action or violence. Proverbs 25:15.

FORBEAR, verb transitive

1. To avoid voluntarily; to decline.

FORBEAR his presence.

2. To abstain from; to omit; to avoid doing. Learn from the scriptures what you ought to do and what to forbear

Have we not power to forbear working? 1 Corinthians 9:6.

3. To spare; to treat with indulgence and patience.

FORBEARing one another in love. Ephesians 4:2.

4. To withhold.

FORBEAR thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 2 Chronicles 35:21.

FORBEARANCE, noun

1. The act of avoiding, shunning or omitting; either the cessation or intermission of an act commenced, or a withholding from beginning an act. Liberty is the power of doing or forbearing an action, according as the doing or forbearance has a preference in the mind. The forbearance of sin is followed with satisfaction of mind.

2. Command of temper; restraint of passions.

3. The exercise of patience; long suffering; indulgence towards those who injure us; lenity; delay of resentment or punishment.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance and long suffering? Romans 2:4.

FORBEARER, noun One that intermits or intercepts.

FORBEARING, participle present tense

1. Ceasing; pausing; withholding from action; exercising patience and indulgence.

2. adjective Patient; long suffering.

FORBEARING, noun A ceasing or restraining from action; patience; long suffering.

FORBID', verb transitive preterit tense forbad; participle passive forbid forbidden. Literally, to bid or command against. Hence,

1. To prohibit; to interdict; to command to forbear or not to do. The laws of God forbid us to swear. Good manners also forbid us to use profane language. All servile labor and idle amusements on the sabbath are forbidden.

2. To command not to enter; as, I have forbid him my house or presence. This phrase seems to be elliptical; to forbid from entering or approaching.

3. To oppose; to hinder; to obstruct. An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.

4. To accurse; to blast. obsolete

FORBID', verb intransitive To utter a prohibition; but in the intransitive form, there is always an ellipsis. I would go, but my state of health forbids, that is, forbids me to go, or my going.

FORBID', 'DEN, participle passive

1. Prohibited; as the forbidden fruit.

2. Hindered; obstructed.

FORBID'DANCE, noun Prohibition; command or edict against a thing. [Little used.]

FORBID'DENLY, adverb In an unlawful manner.

FORBID'DENNESS, noun A state of being prohibited. [Not used.]

FORBID'DER, noun He or that which forbids or enacts a prohibition.

FORBID'DING, participle present tense

1. Prohibiting; hindering.

2. adjective Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion or dislike; disagreeable; as a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

FORBID'DING, noun Hindrance; opposition.

FORBO'RE, preterit tense of forebear.

FORBORNE, participle passive of forbear.

Few ever repented of having forborne to speak.

FORCE, noun [Latin fortis. All words denoting force power, strength, are from verbs which express straining, or driving, rushing, and this word has the elements of Latin vireo.]

1. Strength; active power; vigor; might; energy that may be exerted; that physical property in a body which may produce action or motion in another body, or may counteract such motion. By the force of the muscles we raise a weight, or resist an assault.

2. Momentum; the quantity of power produced by motion or the action of one body on another; as the force of a cannon ball.

3. That which causes an operation or moral effect; strength; energy; as the force of the mind, will or understanding.

4. Violence; power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power. Let conquerors consider that force alone can keep what force as obtained.

5. Strength; moral power to convince the mind. There is great force in an argument.

6. Virtue; efficacy. No presumption or hypothesis can be of force enough to overthrow constant experience.

7. Validity; power to bind or hold. If the conditions of a covenant are not fulfilled, the contract is of no force A testament is of force after the testator is dead. Hebrews 9:17.

8. Strength or power for war; armament; troops; an army or navy; as a military or naval force:sometimes in the plural; as military forces.

9. Destiny; necessity; compulsion; any extraneous power to which men are subject; as the force of fate or of divine decrees.

10. Internal power; as the force of habit.

11. In law, any unlawful violence to person or property. This is simple, when no other crime attends it, as the entering into another's possession, without committing any other unlawful act. It is compound, when some other violence or unlawful act is committed. The law also implies force as when a person enters a house or inclosure lawfully, but afterwards does an unlawful act. In this case, the law supposes the first entrance to be for that purpose, and therefore by force

Physical force is the force of material bodies.

Moral force is the power of acting on the reason in judging and determining.

Mechanical force is the power that belongs to bodies at rest or in motion. The pressure or tension of bodies at rest is called a mechanical force and so is the power of a body in motion. There is also the force of gravity or attraction, centrifugal and centripetal forces, expansive force etc.

FORCE, verb transitive

1. To compel; to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible. Men are forced to submit to conquerors. Masters force their slaves to labor.

2. To overpower by strength.

I should have forced thee soon with other arms.

3. To impel; to press; to drive; to draw or push by main strength; a sense of very extensive use; as, to force along a wagon or a ship; to force away a man's arms; water forces its way through a narrow channel; a man may be forced out of his possessions.

4. To enforce; to urge; to press.

Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.

5. To compel by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind; to force one to acknowledge the truth of a proposition.

6. To storm; to assault and take by violence; as, to force a town or fort.

7. To ravish; to violate by force as a female.

8. To overstrain; to distort; as a forced conceit.

9. To cause to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree; or to cause to ripen prematurely, as fruit.

10. To man; to strengthen by soldiers; to garrison. obsolete

To force from, to wrest from; to extort.

To force out, to drive out; to compel to issue out or to leave; also, to extort.

To force wine, is to fine it by a short process, or in a short time.

To force plants, is to urge the growth of plants by artificial heat.

To force meat, is to stuff it.

FORCE, verb intransitive

1. To lay stress on. obsolete

2. To strive. obsolete

3. To use violence.

FORCED, participle passive

1. Compelled; impelled; driven by violence; urged; stormed; ravished.

2. adjective Affected; overstrained; unnatural; as a forced style.

FORCEDLY, adverb Violently; constrainedly; unnaturally. [Little used.]

FORCEDNESS, noun The state of being forced; distortion.

FORCEFUL, adjective

1. Impelled by violence; driven with force; acting with power.

Against the steed he threw his forceful spear.

2. Violent; impetuous.

FORCEFULLY, adverb Violently; impetuously.

FORCELESS, adjective Having little or not force; feeble; impotent.

FORCEMEAT, noun A kind of stuffing in cookery.

FOR'CEPS, noun [Latin] Literally, a pair of pinchers or tongs.

In surgery, an instrument for extracting any thing from a wound, and for like purposes.

A pair of scissors for cutting off or dividing the fleshy membranous parts of the body.

FORCER, noun

1. He or that which forces, drives or constrains.

2. The embolus of a pump; the instrument by which water is driven up a pump.

FORCIBLE, adjective

1. Powerful; strong; mighty; as a punishment forcible to bridle sin.

2. Violent; impetuous; driving forward with force; as a forcible stream.

3. Efficacious; active; powerful.

Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances when broken.

4. Powerful; acting with force; impressive; as forcible words or arguments.

5. Containing force; acting by violence; as forcible means.

6. Done by force; suffered by force. The abdication of James, his advocates hold to have been forcible

7. Valid; binding; obligatory. [Not used.]

8. In law, forcible entry is an actual violent entry into houses or lands.

FORCIBLE detainer, is a violent withholding of the lands, etc. of another from his possession.

FORCIBLE abduction, is the act of taking away wrongfully, as a child without the consent of the father, a ward without the consent of the guardian, or any person contrary to his or her will.

FORCIBLENESS, noun Force; violence.

FORCIBLY, adverb

1. By violence or force.

2. Strongly; powerfully; with power or energy; impressively.

The gospel offers such considerations as are fit to work very forcibly on our hopes and fears.

3. Impetuously; violently; with great strength; as a stream rushing forcibly down a precipice.

FORCING, participle present tense

1. Compelling; impelling; driving; storming; ravishing.

2. Causing to ripen before the natural season, as fruit; or causing to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree.

3. Fining wine by a speedy process.

FORCING, noun

1. In gardening, the art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits, at an earlier season than the natural one, by artificial heat.

2. The operation of fining wines by a speedy process.

FOR'CIPATED, adjective [from forceps.] Formed like a pair of pinchers to open and inclose; as a forcipated mouth.

FORD, noun

1. A place in a river or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, or by wading.

2. A stream; a current.

Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford

FORD, verb transitive To pass or cross a river or other water by treading or walking on the bottom; to pass through water by wading; to wade through.

FORDABLE, adjective That may be waded or passed through on foot, as water.

FORDED, participle passive Passed through on foot; waded.

FORDING, participle present tense Wading; passing through on foot as water.

FORDO', verb transitive To destroy; to undo; to ruin; to weary. [Not in use.]

FORE, adjective

1. Properly, advanced, or being in advance of something in motion or progression; as the fore end of a chain carried in measuring land; the fore oxen or horses in a team.

2. Advanced in time; coming in advance of something; coming first; anterior; preceding; prior; as the fore part of the last century; the fore part of the day, week or year.

3. Advanced in order or series; antecedent; as the fore part of a writing or bill.

4. Being in front or towards the face; opposed to back or behind; as the fore part of a garment.

5. Going first; usually preceding the other part; as the fore part of a ship, or of a coach.

FORE, adverb In the part that precedes or goes first.

In seamen's language, fore and aft signifies the whole length of the ship, or from end to end, from stem to stern.

FORE, in composition, denotes, for the most part, priority of time; sometimes, advance in place.

For the etymologies of the compounds of fore see the principal word.

FOREADMON'ISH, verb transitive To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.

FOREADVI'SE, verb transitive s as z To advise or counsel before the time of action or before the event; to preadmonish.

FOREALLEDGE, verb transitive foreallej'. To alledge or cite before.

FOREAPPOINT', verb transitive To set, order or appoint beforehand.

FOREAPPOINT'MENT, noun Previous appointment; preordination.

FORE'ARM, verb transitive To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.

FOREBO'DE, verb transitive

1. To foretell; to prognosticate.

2. To foreknow; to be prescient of; to feel a secret sense of something future; as, my heart forebodes a sad reverse.

FOREBO'DEMENT, noun A presaging; presagement.

FOREBO'DER, noun

1. One who forebodes; a prognosticator; a soothsayer.

2. A foreknower.

FOREBO'DING, participle present tense Prognosticating; foretelling; foreknowing.

FOREBO'DING, noun Prognostication.

FOREBRACE, noun A rope applied to the fore yard-arm to change the position of the foresail.

FOREBY', preposition [fore and by.] Near; hard by; fast by. obsolete

FOREC'AST, verb transitive

1. To foresee; to provide against.

It is wisdom to forecast consequences.

2. To scheme; to plan before execution.

He shall forecast his devices against the strong holds. Daniel 11:24.

3. To adjust; contrive or appoint beforehand

The time so well forecast

FOREC'AST, verb intransitive To form a scheme previously; to contrive beforehand.

Forecasting how his foe he might annoy.

FO'REC'AST, noun Previous contrivance; foresight, or the antecedent determination proceeding from it; as a man of little forecast

FOREC'ASTER, noun One who foresees or contrives beforehand.

FOREC'ASTING, participle present tense Contriving previously.

FO'RECASTLE, noun A short deck in the forepart of a ship above the upper deck usually terminated in ships of war with a breast-work; the foremost part forming the top of the beak-head, and the hind part reaching to the after part of the fore chains.

FORECHO'SEN, adjective forcho'zn. Preelected; chosen beforehand.

FORECITED, adjective Cited or quoted before or above.

FORECLO'SE, verb transitive s as z. To shut up; to preclude; to stop; to prevent.

The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

To foreclose a mortgager, in law, is to cut him off from his equity of redemption, or the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, by a judgment of court.

[To foreclose a mortgage is not technically correct, but is often used.]

FORECLO'SURE, noun s as z.

1. Prevention.

2. The act of foreclosing, or depriving a mortgager of the right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

FORECONCEI'VE, verb transitive To preconceive.

FOREDA'TE, verb transitive To date before the true time.

FOREDA'TED, participle passive Dated before the true time.

FO'REDECK, noun The forepart of a deck, or of a ship.

FOREDESI'GN, verb transitive To plan beforehand; to intend previously.

FORE'DETERM'INE, verb transitive To decree beforehand.

FOREDOOM', verb transitive To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.

FOREDOOM', noun Previous doom or sentence.

FOREDOOR, noun The door in the front of a house.

FOREF'ATHER, noun An ancestor; one who precedes another in the line of genealogy, in any degree; usually in a remote degree.

FOREFEND', verb transitive

1. To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent approach; to forbid or prohibit.

2. To defend; to guard; to secure.

This word, like the Latin arceo, is applied to the thing assailing, and to the thing assailed. To drive back or resist that which assails, is to hinder its approach, to forbid or avert, and this act defends the thing threatened or assailed.

FOREFIN'GER, noun The finger next to the thumb; the index; called by our Saxon ancestors, the shoot-finger, from its use in archery.

FOREFLOW, verb transitive To flow before.

FOREFOOT, noun

1. One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped.

2. A hand, in contempt.

3. In a ship, a piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.

FOREFRONT', noun The foremost part. The forefront of the battle, is the part where the contest is most warm, and where a soldier is most exposed. 2 Samuel 11:15.

FO'REGAME, noun A first game; first plan.

FOREGO', verb transitive [See Go.]

1. To forbear to possess or enjoy; voluntarily to avoid the enjoyment of good. Let us forego the pleasures of sense, to secure immortal bliss.

2. To give up; to renounce; to resign. But this word is usually applied to things not possessed or enjoyed, and which cannot be resigned.

3. To lose.

4. To go before; to precede. obsolete

FOREGO'ER, noun

1. An ancestor; a progenitor. [Not used.]

2. One who goes before another.

3. One who forbears to enjoy.

FOREGO'ING, participle present tense

1. Forbearing to have, possess or enjoy.

2. adjective Preceding; going before, in time or place; antecedent; as a foregoing period of time; a foregoing clause in a writing.

FOREGONE, participle passive foregawn'.

1. Forborne to be possessed or enjoyed.

2. Gone before; past. obsolete

FO'REGROUND, noun The part of the field or expanse of a picture which seems to lie before the figures.

FOREGUESS', verb transitive To conjecture. [Bad.]

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.

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, 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.

FOREHE'AR, verb intransitive To be informed before.

FOREHEND', verb transitive To seize. [Not in use.]

FOREHEW', verb transitive To hew or cut in front.

FOREHOLDING, noun Predictions; ominous forebodings; superstitious prognostications. [Not used.]

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.

FO'REHORSE, noun The horse in a team which goes foremost.

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.

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.

FOR'EIGNNESS, noun for'anness. Remoteness; want of relation; as the foreignness of a subject from the main business.

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.

FOREJUDG'MENT, noun Judgment previously formed.

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. Romans 8:29.

FOREKNOWABLE, adjective That may be foreknown.

FOREKNOWER, noun One that foreknows.

FOREKNOWL'EDGE, noun Knowledge of a thing before it happens; prescience.

If I foreknew, foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.

FOR'EL, noun A kind of parchment for the cover of books.

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.

FORELA'Y, verb transitive

1. To lay wait for; to entrap by ambush.

2. To contrive antecedently.

FORELE'ADER, noun One who leads others by his example.

FORELEND', verb transitive To lend or give beforehand.

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', verb transitive To look beforehand or forward.

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.

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', adjective forement'. Intended beforehand.

FOREMEM'BERED, adjective Called to mind previously.

FOREMEN'TIONED, adjective Mentioned before; recited or written in a former part of the same writing or discourse.

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.

FO'REMOTHER, noun A female ancestor.

FO'RENAMED, adjective

1. Named or nominated before.

2. Mentioned before in the same writing or discourse.

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.

FORENO'TICE, noun Notice or information of an event before it happens.

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.

FOREORDA'IN, verb intransitive To ordain or appoint before; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.

FOREORDINA'TION, noun Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

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.

FO'REPAST, adjective Past before a certain time; as forepast sins. [Little used.]

FORE'POSSESS'ED, adjective Holding formerly in possession; also, preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged.

FOREPRI'ZE, verb transitive To prize or rate beforehand.

FOREPROM'ISED, adjective Promised beforehand; preengaged.

FOREQUO'TED, adjective Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the work.

FO'RERANK, noun The first rank; the front.

FORERE'ACH, upon, verb transitive In navigation, to gain or advance upon in progression or motion.

FORERE'AD, verb transitive To signify by tokens. obsolete

FORERE'ADING, noun Previous perusal.

FORERECI'TED, adjective Named or recited before.

FO'RERIGHT, adjective Ready; forward; quick.

FO'RERIGHT, adverb Right forward; onward.

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.

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.

FO'RESAID, adjective Spoken before. [See Aforesaid.]

FO'RESAIL, noun A sail extended on the foreyard, which is supported by the foremast.

FORESA'Y, verb transitive To predict; to foretell.

FORESA'YING, noun A prediction.

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.

Proverbs 22:1.

FORESEE'ING, participle present tense Seeing before the event.

FORESEE'N, participle passive Seen beforehand.

FORESEE'R, noun One who foresees or foreknows.

FORESE'IZE, verb transitive To seize beforehand.

FORESHAD'OW, verb transitive To shadow or typify beforehand.

FORESHA'ME, verb transitive To shame; to bring reproach on.

FORESHEW. [See foreshow.]

FO'RESHIP, noun The forepart of a ship. Acts 28:1.

FORESHORT'EN, verb transitive In painting; to shorten figures for the sake of showing those behind.

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, 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, noun One who predicts.

FORESHROUDS', noun The shrouds of a ship attached to the foremast.

FO'RESIDE, noun The front side; also, a specious outside.

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, adjective Prescient; provident. [Little used.]

FORESIG'NIFY, verb transitive To signify beforehand; to betoken previously; to foreshow; to typify.

FO'RESKIN, noun The skin that covers the glans penis; the prepuce.

FO'RESKIRT, noun The loose and pendulous part of a coat before.

FORESLACK', verb transitive To neglect by idleness. [Not used.]

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.]

FORESPE'AK, verb transitive

1. To foresay; to foreshow; to foretell or predict.

2. To forbid. [Not used.]

3. To bewitch. [Not used.]

FORESPE'AKING, noun A prediction; also, a preface. [Not used.]

FORESPEE'CH, noun A preface. [Not used.]

FORESPENT', adjective

1. Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.

2. Past; as life forespent [Little used.]

FORESPUR'RER, noun One that rides before. [Not used.]

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.

FO'REST'AFF, noun An instrument used at sea, for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies; called also cross-staff.

FOR'ESTAGE, noun An ancient service paid by foresters to the king; also, the right of foresters.

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.]

FORESTALL'ED, participle passive Anticipated; hindered; purchased before arrival in market.

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.

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, noun In a ship's rigging, a large strong rope reaching from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end, to support the mast.

FOR'ESTED, participle passive Covered with trees; wooded.

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.

FO'RESWAT, adjective [See Sweat.] Exhausted by heat. obsolete

FO'RETACK'LE, noun The tackle on the foremast.

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.

FORETA'STED, participle passive Tasted beforehand or before another.

FORETA'STER, noun One that tastes beforehand or before another.

FORETA'STING, participle present tense Tasting before.

FORETE'ACH, verb transitive To teach beforehand.

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.

Acts 3:1.

FORETELL'ER, noun One who predicts or prophesies; a foreshower.

FORETELL'ING, noun Prediction.

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', forethaut'. preterit tense of forething.

FO'RETHOUGHT, noun fo'rethaut.

1. A thinking beforehand; anticipation; prescience; premeditation.

2. Provident care.

FORETO'KEN, verb transitive To foreshew; to presignify; to prognosticate.

Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.

FORETO'KEN, noun Prognostic; previous sign.

FO'RETOOTH, noun plural foreteeth. One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.

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.

FOREVOUCH'ED, participle passive Affirmed before; formerly told.

FO'REWARD, noun The van; the front.

FOREWARN', verb transitive forewaurn'.

1. To admonish beforehand.

I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear. Luke 12:5.

2. To inform previously; to give previous notice.

3. To caution beforehand.

FOREWARN'ED, participle passive Admonished, cautioned or informed beforehand.

FOREWARN'ING, participle present tense Previously admonishing or informing.

FOREWARN'ING, noun Previous admonition, caution or notice.

FOREWEND', verb transitive To go before. obsolete

FOREWISH', verb transitive To wish beforehand.

FO'REWOMAN, noun A woman who is chief; the head woman.

FOREWORN, participle passive [See Wear.] Worn out; wasted or obliterated by time or use.

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, 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.

FOR'FEITED, participle passive Lost or alienated by an offense, crime or breach of condition.

FOR'FEITING, participle present tense Alienating or losing, as a right by an offense, crime or breach of condition.

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.

FOR'FEX, noun [Latin] A pair of scissors.

FORGA'VE, preterit tense of forgive, which see.

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, participle passive Hammered; beaten into shape; made; counterfeited.

FORGER, noun

1. One that makes or forms.

2. One who counterfeits; a falsifier.

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', 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. Psalms 103:2.

2. To slight; to neglect.

Can a woman forget her sucking child? Yea, they may forget yet will I not forget thee. Isaiah 49:15.

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. Hebrews 13:2.

3. Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious; as forgetful draughts.

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.

FORGET'TER, noun One that forgets; a heedless person.

FORGET'TING, participle present tense Losing the remembrance of.

FORGET'TING, noun The act of forgetting; forgetfulness; inattention.

FORGET'TINGLY, adverb By forgetting or forgetfulness.

FORGIV'ABLE, adjective [See Forgive.] That may be pardoned.

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. Matthew 6:12.

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.

FORGIV'EN, participle passive Pardoned remitted.

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.

FORGIV'ER, noun One who pardons or remits.

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'TEN, participle passive of forget.

FORGOT'TEN, pp. of forget.

FORHA'IL, verb transitive To draw or distress. [Not used.]

FORIN'SECAL, adjective [Latin forinsecus.] foreign; alien. [Little used.]

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.

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, 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.

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.]

FORK'EDLY, adverb In a forked form.

FORK'EDNESS, noun The quality of opening into two or more parts.

FORK'HEAD, noun the point of an arrow.

FORK'TAIL, noun A salmon, in his fourth year's growth. [Local.]

FORK'Y, adjective Forked; furcated; opening into two or more parts, shoots or points; as a forky tongue.

FORLO'RE, adjective Forlorn. [Not in use.]

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.

FORLORN'NESS, noun Destitution; misery; a forsaken or wretched condition.

FORLYE, verb intransitive To lye before. [Not used.]

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. Daniel 3:19.

After that he appeared in another form to two of them, as they walked. Mark 16:12.

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. 2 Timothy 1:13.

4. Beauty; elegance; splendor; dignity.

He hath no form nor comeliness. Isaiah 53:2.

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. Genesis 1:2.

10. Likeness; image.

Who, being in the form of God - Philippians 2:6.

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.

Gen 2.

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

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.

FORM'ALISM, noun Formality. [The latter is generally used.]

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.

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.

FORM'ALIZE, verb transitive To model. [Not used.]

FORM'ALIZE, verb intransitive To affect formality. [Little used.]

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.

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.

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

FORM'ED, participle passive Made; shaped; molded; planned; arranged; combined; enacted; constituted.

FORM'EDON, noun [forma doni.] A writ for the recovery of lands by statute of Westminister.

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. Deuteronomy 24:4.

2. Past, and frequently ancient, long past.

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age. Job 8:8.

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.

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.

FORM'FUL, adjective Ready to form; creative; imaginative.

FOR'MIATE, noun [from Latin formica, an ant.] A neutral salt, composed of the formic acid and a base.

FOR'MIC, adjective [Latin formica, an ant.] Pertaining to ants; as the formic acid, the acid of ants.

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.

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.

FORM'IDABLENESS, noun The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.

FORM'IDABLY, adverb In a manner to impress fear.

FORM'LESS, adjective [from form.] Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.

FORM'ULA, 'ULE, noun [Latin]

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.

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.

FORN'ICATED, a. [L. fornicatus, from fornix, an arch.] Arched; vaulted like an oven or furnace.

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. Matthew 5:32.

3. Incest. 1 Corinthians 5:1.

4. Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. 2 Chronicles 21:11, Revelation 19:2.

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.

FORN'ICATRESS, noun An unmarried female guilty lewdness.

FORP'ASS, verb intransitive To go by; to pass unnoticed. obsolete

FORPI'NE, verb intransitive To pine or waste away. obsolete

FORRA'Y, verb transitive To ravage. obsolete

FORRA'Y, noun The act of ravaging. obsolete

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. Proverbs 9:6.

2. To abandon; to renounce; to reject.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments - Psalms 89:30.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Psalms 37:8.

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.

FORSA'KEN, participle passive Deserted; left; abandoned.

FORSA'KER, noun One that forsakes or deserts.

FORSA'KING, participle present tense Leaving or deserting.

FORSA'KING, noun The act of deserting; dereliction.

FORSA'Y, verb transitive To forbid; to renounce. obsolete

FORSLACK', verb transitive To delay. obsolete

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.

FORS'TER, noun A forester.

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. Matthew 5:33.

FORSWEAR, verb intransitive To swear falsely; to commit perjury.

FORSWEARER, noun One who rejects on oath; one who is perjured; one that swears a false oath.

FORSWEARING, participle present tense Denying on oath; swearing falsely.

FORSWONK', adjective Overlabored. obsolete

FORSWORE, preterit tense of forswear.

FORSWORN, participle passive of forswear. Renounced on oath; perjured.

FORSWORNNESS, noun The state of being forsworn.

FORT, noun [Latin fortis, strong.]

1. A fortified place; usually, a small fortified place; a place surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; also, any building or place fortified for security against an enemy; a castle.

2. A strong side, opposed to weak side or foible.

FORTE, adverb A direction to sign with strength of voice.

FORTED, adjective Furnished with forts; guarded by forts.

FORTH, adverb

1. Forward; onward in time; in advance; as from that day forth; from that time forth

2. Forward in place or order; as one, two, three, and so forth

3. Out; aboard; noting progression or advance from a state of confinement; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.

When winter past, and summer scarce begun, invites them forth to labor in the sun.

4. Out; away; beyond the boundary of a place; as, send him forth of France. [Little used.]

5. Out into public view, or public character. Your country calls you forth into its service.

6. Thoroughly; from beginning to end. obsolete

7. On to the end. obsolete

FORTH, preposition Out of.

From forth the streets of Pomfret.

Some forth their cabins peep.

FORTHINK', verb transitive To repent of. [Not in use.]

FORTHRIGHT, adverb [See Right.] Straight forward; in a straight direction. obsolete

FORTHRIGHT, noun A straight path. obsolete

FORTHWARD, adverb Forward.

FORTHWITH', adverb [forth and with.] Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received his sight forthwith Acts 9:18.

FO'RTHY, adverb Therefore. [Not used.]

FOR'TIETH, adjective [See Forty.] The fourth tenth; noting the number next after the thirty ninth.

FOR'TIFIABLE, adjective That may be fortified. [Little used.]

FORTIFICA'TION, noun [See Fortify.]

1. The act of fortifying.

2. The art or science of fortifying places to defend them against an enemy, by means of moats, ramparts, parapets and other bulwarks.

3. The works erected to defend a place against attack.

4. A fortified place; a fort; a castle.

5. Additional strength.

FOR'TIFIER, noun

1. One who erects works for defense.

2. One who strengthens, supports and upholds; that which strengthens.

FOR'TIFY, verb transitive

1. To surround with a wall, ditch, palisades or other works, with a view to defend against the attacks of an enemy; to strengthen and secure by forts, batteries and other works of art; as, to fortify a city, town or harbor.

2. To strengthen against any attack; as, to fortify the mind against sudden calamity.

3. To confirm; to add strength and firmness to; as, to fortify an opinion or resolution; to fortify hope or desire.

4. To furnish with strength or means of resisting force, violence or assault.

FOR'TIFY, verb intransitive To raise strong places.

FORTILAGE, noun A little fort; a blockhouse. [Not used.]

FORTIN, noun A little fort; a field fort; a sconce.

FOR'TITUDE, noun [Latin fortitudo, from fortis, strong.]

That strength or firmness of mind or soul which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression or despondency. fortitude is the basis or source of genuine courage or intrepidity in danger, of patience in suffering, of forbearance under injuries, and of magnanimity in all conditions of life. We sometimes confound the effect with the cause, and use fortitude as synonymous with courage or patience; but courage is an active virtue or vice, and patience is the effect of fortitude

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

FORTLET, noun A little fort.

FORT'NIGHT, noun fort'nit. The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

FOR'TRESS, noun

1. Any fortified place; a fort; a castle; a strong hold; a place of defense or security. The English have a strong fortress on the rock of Gibraltar, or that rock is a fortress

2. Defense; safety; security;

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress Psalms 18:2.

FOR'TRESS, verb transitive To furnish with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

FOR'TRESSED, adjective Defended by a fortress; protected; secured.

FORTU'ITOUS, adjective [Latin fortuitus, from the root of fors, forte, fortuna. The primary sense is to come, to fall, to happen. See Fare.]

Accidental; casual; happening by chance; coming or occurring unexpectedly, or without any known cause. We speak of fortuitous events, when they occur without our foreseeing or expecting them, and of a fortuitous concourse of atoms, when we suppose the concourse not to result from the design and power of a controlling agent. But an event cannot be in fact fortuitous [See Accidental and Casual.]

FORTU'ITOUSLY, adverb Accidentally; casually; by chance.

FORTU'ITOUSNESS, noun The quality of being accidental; accident; chance.

FOR'TUNATE, adjective [Latin fortunatus. See Fortune.

1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some unexpected good; as a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate ticket in a lottery.

2. Lucky; successful; receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; as a fortunate adventurer in a lottery. I was most fortunate thus unexpectedly to meet my friend.

3. Successful; happy; prosperous; receiving or enjoying some good in consequence of efforts, but where the event was uncertain, and not absolutely in one's power. The brave man is usually fortunate We say, a fortunate competitor for a fair lady, or for a crown.

FOR'TUNATELY, adverb Luckily; successfully; happily; by good fortune, or favorable chance or issue.

FOR'TUNATENESS, noun Good luck; success; happiness.

FOR'TUNE, noun [Latin fortuna, fero or porto, tempestivus. See Hour and Time.]

1. Properly, chance; accident; luck; the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner. Hence the heathens deified chance, and consecrated temples and altars to the goddess. Hence the modern use of the word, for a power supposed to distribute the lots of life, according to her own humor.

Though fortune's malice overthrow my state.

2. The good or ill that befalls man.

In you the fortune of Great Britain lies.

3. Success, good or bad; event.

Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.

4. The chance of life; means of living; wealth.

His father dying, he was driven to London to seek his fortune

5. Estate; possessions, as a gentleman of small fortune

6. A large estate; great wealth. This is often the sense of the word standing alone or unqualified; as a gentleman or lady of fortune To the ladies we say, beware of fortune-hunters.

7. The portion of a man or woman; generally of a woman.

8. Futurity; future state or events; destiny. The young are anxious to have their fortunes told.

You who men's fortunes in their faces read.

FOR'TUNE, verb transitive

1. To make fortunate. [Not used.]

2. To dispose fortunately or not; also, to presage. obsolete

FOR'TUNE, verb intransitive To befall; to fall out; to happen; to come casually to pass.

It fortuned the same night that a christian serving a Turk in the camp, secretly gave the watchmen warning.

FOR'TUNEBOOK, noun A book to be consulted to discover future events.

FOR'TUNED, adjective Supplied by fortune.

FOR'TUNELESS, adjective Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.

FOR'TUNETELL, verb transitive To tell or pretend to tell the future events of one's life; to reveal futurity.

FOR'TUNETELLER, noun One who tells or pretends to foretell the events of one's life; an impostor who deceives people by pretending to a knowledge of future events.

FOR'TUNETELLING, participle present tense Telling the future events of one's life.

FOR'TUNETELLING, noun The act or practice of foretelling the future fortune or events of one's life, which is a punishable crime.

FOR'TUNIZE, verb transitive To regulate the fortune of. [Not in use.]

FOR'TY, adjective [See Four.]

1. Four times ten.

2. An indefinite number; a colloquial use. A, B and C, and forty more.

FO'RUM, noun [Latin See Fair.]

1. In Rome, a public place, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people; also, a market place. Hence,

2. A tribunal; a court; any assembly empowered to hear and decide causes; also, jurisdiction.

FORWANDER, verb intransitive To wander away; to rove wildly. [Not used.]

FOR'WARD, adverb [ Latin versus; directed to the forepart. Forwards is also used, but it is a corruption.]

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; progressively; opposed to backward. Go forward; move forward He ran backward and forward

In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.

FOR'WARD, adjective

1. Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet; the forward horse in a team.

2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Galatians 2:10.

3. Ardent; eager; earnest; violent.

Or lead the forward youth to noble war.

4. Bold; confident; less reserved or modest than is proper; in an ill sense; as, the boy is too forward for his years.

5. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season. The grass or the grain is forward or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

6. Quick; hasty; too ready. Be not forward to speak in public. Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.

7. Anterior; fore.

Let us take the instant by the forward top.

8. Advanced; not behindhand.

FOR'WARD, verb transitive

1. To advance; to help onward; to promote; as, to forward a good design.

2. To accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

3. To send forward; to send towards the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter or dispatches.

FOR'WARDED, participle passive Advanced; promoted; aided in progress; quickened; sent onward; transmitted.

FOR'WARDER, noun He that promotes, or advanced in progress.

FOR'WARDING, participle present tense Advancing; promoting; aiding in progress; accelerating in growth; sending onwards; transmitting.

FOR'WARDLY, adverb Eagerly; hastily; quickly.

FOR'WARDNESS, noun

1. Cheerful readiness; promptness. It expresses more than willingness. We admire the forwardness of christians in propagating the gospel.

2. Eagerness; ardor. It is sometimes difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.

3. Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.

In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance.

4. A state of advance beyond the usual degree; as the forwardness of spring or of corn.

FORWA'STE, verb transitive To waste; to desolate. [Not in use.]

FORWE'ARY, verb transitive To dispirit. [Not in use.]

FORWEE'P, verb intransitive To weep much.

FOR'WORD, noun [fore and word.] A promise. [Not in use.]

FOSS, noun [Latin fossa; from fossus, fodio, to dig.]

1. A ditch or moat; a word used in fortification.

2. In anatomy, a kind of cavity in a bone, with a large aperture.

FOS'SIL, adjective [Latin fossitis, from fodio, fossius, to dig.]

1. Dug out of the earth; as fossil coal; fossil salt. The term fossil is now usually appropriated to those inorganic substances, which have become penetrated by earthy or metallic particles. Thus we say, fossil shells, fossil bones, fossil wood.

2. That may be taken from the earth by digging.

FOS'SIL, noun A substance dug from the earth, or penetrated with earthy or metallic particles.

Fossils are native or extraneous. Native fossils are minerals, properly so called, as earth, salts, combustibles and metallic bodies. Extraneous fossils are bodies of vegetable or animal origin accidentally buried in the early, as plants, shells, bones and other substances, many of which are petrified.

FOS'SILIST, noun One who studies the nature and properties of fossils; one who is versed in the science of fossils.

FOSSILIZA'TION, noun The act or process of converting into a fossil or petrification.

FOS'SILIZE, verb transitive To convert into a fossil; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

FOS'SILIZE, verb intransitive To become or be changed into a fossil.

FOS'SILIZED, participle passive Converted into a fossil.

FOS'SILIZING, participle present tense Changing into a fossil.

FOSSIL'OGY, noun [fossil, and Gr. discourse.]

A discourse or treatise on fossils; also, the science of fossils.

FOSS'ROAD,

FOSS'WAY, noun A Roman military way in England, leading from Totness through Exeter to Barton on the Humber; so called from the ditches on each side.

FOSS'WAY, n. A Roman military way in England, leading from Totness through Exeter to Barton on the Humber; so called from the ditches on each side.

FOS'TER, verb transitive

1. To feed; to nourish; to support; to being up.

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.

2. To cherish; to forward; to promote growth. The genial warmth of spring fosters the plants.

3. To cherish; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster passion or genius.

FOS'TER, verb intransitive To be nourished or trained up together.

FOS'TERAGE, noun The charge of nursing.

FOS'TERED, participle passive Nourished; cherished; promoted.

FOS'TERER, noun A nurse; one that feeds and nourishes in the place of parents.

FOS'TERING, participle present tense Nursing; cherishing; bringing up.

FOS'TERING, noun

1. The act of nursing, nourishing and cherishing.

2. Nourishment.

FOS'TERLING, noun A fosterchild.

FOS'TERMENT, noun Food; nourishment. [Not used.]

FOS'TRESS, noun A female who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.

FOTH'ER, noun [See Food.]

A weight of lead containing eight pigs, and every pig twenty one stone and a half. But the fother is of different weights. With the plumbers in London it is nineteen hundred and a half, and at the mines, it is twenty two hundred and a half.

FOTH'ER, verb transitive [from stuffing. See the preceding word.]

To endeavor to stop a leak in the bottom of a ship, while afloat, by letting down a sail by the corners, and putting chopped yarn, oakum, wool, cotton, etc. Between it and the ship's sides. These substances are sometimes sucked into the cracks and the leak stopped.

FOTH'ERING, participle present tense Stopping leaks, as above.

FOTH'ERING, noun The operation of stopping leaks in a ship, as above.

FOUG'ADE, noun [Latin focus.]

In the art of war, a little mine, in the form of a well, 8 or 10 feet wide, and 10 or 12 deep, dug under some work, fortification or post, charged with sacks of powder and covered with stones or earth, for destroying the works by explosion.

FOUGHT, pret, and participle passive of fight; pronoun faut. [See Fight.]

FOUGHTEN, for fought. obsolete

FOUL, adjective

1. Covered with or containing extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious or offensive; filthy; dirty; not clean; as a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney.

My face is foul with weeping. Job 16:16.

2. Turbid; thick; muddy; as foul water; a foul stream.

3. Impure; polluted; as a foul mouth.

4. Impure; scurrilous; obscene or profane; as foul words; foul language.

5. Cloudy and stormy; rainy or tempestuous; as foul weather.

6. Impure; defiling; as a foul disease.

7. Wicked; detestable; abominable; as a foul deed; a foul spirit.

Babylon - the hold of every foul spirit. Revelation 18:2.

8. Unfair; not honest; not lawful or according to established rules or customs; as foul play.

9. Hateful; ugly; loathsome.

Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax.

10. Disgraceful; shameful; as a foul defeat.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

11. Coarse; gross.

They are all for rank and foul feeding.

12. Full of gross humors or impurities.

You perceive the body of our kingdom, how foul it is.

13. Full of weeds; as, the garden is very foul

14. Among seamen, entangled; hindered from motion; opposed to clear; as, a rope is foul

15. Covered with weeds or barnacles; as, the ship has a foul bottom.

16. Not fair; contrary; as a foul wind.

17. Not favorable or safe; dangerous; as a foul road or bay.

1. To fall foul is to rush on with haste, rough force and unseasonable violence.

2. To run against; as, the ship fell foul of her consort.

FOUL, verb transitive To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to bemire; to soil; as, to foul the clothes; to foul the face or hands. Ezekiel 34:18.

FOUL'DER, verb intransitive To emit great heat. [Not used.]

FOUL'ED, participle passive Defiled; dirtied.

FOUL'FACED, adjective Having an ugly or hateful visage.

FOULFEE'DING, adjective Gross; feeding grossly.

FOUL'ING, participle present tense Making foul; defiling.

FOUL'LY, adverb

1. Filthily; nastily; hatefully; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.

I foully wronged him; do, forgive me, do.

2. Unfairly; not honestly.

Thou play'dst most foully for it.

FOUL'MOUTHED, adjective Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene or profane; uttering abuse, or profane or obscene words; accustomed to use bad language.

So foulmouthed a witness never appeared in any cause.

FOUL'NESS, noun

1. The quality of being foul or filthy; filthiness; defilement.

2. The quality or state of containing or being covered with any thing extraneous which is noxious or offensive; as the foulness of a cellar, or of a well; the foulness of a musket; the foulness of a ship's bottom.

3. Pollution; impurity.

There is not so chaste a nation as this, nor so free from all pollution or foulness

4. Hatefulness; atrociousness; as the foulness of a deed.

5. Ugliness; deformity.

The foulness of the' infernal form to hide.

6. Unfairness; dishonesty; want of candor.

Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity, and all falseness or foulness of intentions.

FOUL'SPOKEN, adjective

1. Slanderous.

2. Using profane, scurrilous or obscene language.

FOU'MART, noun The polecat.

FOUND, preterit tense and participle passive of find.

I am found of them that sought me not. Isaiah 65:1.

FOUND, verb transitive [Latin fundo, fundare; Heb. to build, that is, to set, found erect.]

1. To lay the basis of any thing; to set, or place, as on something solid for support.

It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matthew 7:25.

2. To begin and build; to lay the foundation, and raise a superstructure; as, to found a city.

3. To set or place; to establish, as on something solid or durable; as, to found a government on principles of liberty.

4. To begin; to form or lay the basis; as, to found a college or a library. Sometimes to endow is equivalent to found

5. To give birth to; to originate; as, to found an art or a family.

6. To set; to place; to establish on a basis. Christianity is founded on the rock of ages. Dominion is sometimes founded on conquest; sometimes on choice or voluntary consent.

Power, founded on contract, can descend only to him who has right by that contract.

7. To fix firmly.

I had else been perfect, whole as the marble, founded as the rock.

FOUND, verb transitive [Latin fundo, fudi, fusum.]

To cast; to form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mold.

[This verb is seldom used, but the derivative foundry is in common use. for found we use cast.]

FOUNDA'TION, noun [Latin fundatio, fundo.]

1. The basis of an edifice; that part of a building which lies on the ground; usually a wall of stone which supports the edifice.

2. The act of fixing the basis.

3. The basis or ground work, or any thing; that on which any thing stands, and by which it is supported. A free government has its foundation in the choice and consent of the people to be governed. Christ is the foundation of the church.

Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone - a precious cornerstone. Isaiah 28:16.

Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:10.

4. Original; rise; as the foundation of the world.

5. Endowment; a donation or legacy appropriated to support an institution, and constituting a permanent fund, usually for a charitable purpose.

6. Establishment; settlement.

FOUNDA'TIONLESS, adjective Having no foundation.

FOUND'ED, participle passive Set; fixed; established on a basis; begun and built.

FOUND'ER, n

1. One that founds, establishes and erects; one that lays a foundation; as the founder of a temple or city.

2. One who begins; an author; one from whom any thing originates; as the founder of a sect of philosophers; the founder of a family or race.

3. One who endows; one who furnishes a permanent fund for the support of an institution; as the founder of a college or hospital.

4. A caster; one who casts metals in various forms; as a founder of cannon, belles, hardware, printing types, etc.

FOUND'ER, verb intransitive

1. In seamen's language, to fill or be filled and sink, as a ship.

2. To fail; to miscarry.

3. To trip; to fell.

FOUND'ER, verb transitive To cause internal inflammation and great soreness in the feet of a horse, so as to disable or lame him.

FOUND'ERED, participle passive Made lame in the feet by inflammation and extreme tenderness.

FOUND'EROUS, adjective Failing; liable to perish; ruinous. [Not in use.]

FOUND'ERY, noun

1. The art of casting metals into various forms for use; the casting of statues.

2. The house and works occupied in casting metals; as a foundery of bells, of hollow ware, of cannon, of types, etc.

FOUND'LING, noun [from found, find.] A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. A hospital for such children is called a foundling hospital.

FOUND'RESS, noun A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

FOUNT',

FOUNT'AIN, noun [Latin fons.]

1. A spring, or source of water; properly, a spring or issuing of water from the earth. This word accords in sense with well, in our mother tongue; but we now distinguish the, applying fountain to a natural spring of water, and well to an artificial pit of water, issuing from the interior of the earth.

2. A small basin of springing water.

3. A jet; a spouting of water; an artificial spring.

4. The head or source of a river.

5. Original; first principle or cause; the source of any thing.

Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.

FOUNT of types. [See Font.]

FOUNT'AINLESS, adjective Having no fountain; wanting a spring.

A barren desert fountainless and dry.

FOUNT'FUL, adjective Full of springs; as fountful Ida.

FOUR, adjective [Latin petoritum, petorritum, a carriage with four wheels, petor-rota.]

Twice two; denoting the sum or two and two.

FOURBE, noun A tricking fellow; a cheat. [Not English.]

FOURFOLD, adjective Four double; quadruple; four times told; as a fourfold division.

He shall restore the lamb fourfold 2 Samuel 12:6.

FOURFOLD, noun Four times as much.

FOURFOOTED, adjective Quadruped; having four feet; as the horse and the ox.

FOURRIER, noun A harbinger. [Not English.]

FOURSCORE, adjective [See Score.] Four times twenty; eighty. It is used elliptically for fourscore years; as a man of fourscore

FOURSQUARE, adjective Having four sides and four angles equal; quadrangular.

FOURTEEN, adjective [four and ten.] Four and ten; twice seven.

FOURTEENTH, adjective The ordinal of fourteen; the fourth after the tenth.

FOURTH, adjective The ordinal of four; the next after the third.

FOURTH, noun In music, an interval composed of two tones and a semitone. Three full tones compose a triton, or fourth redundant.

FOURTHLY, adverb In the fourth place.

FOURWHEELED, adjective Having or running on four wheels.

FOVIL'LA, noun [Latin foveo.] A fine substance, imperceptible to the naked eye, emitted from the pollen of flowers.

FOWL, noun [Latin fugio, fugo, Gr. and signifying the flying animal.]

A flying or winged animal; the generic name of certain animals that move through the air by the aid of wings. Fowls have two feet, are covered with feathers, and have wings for flight. Bird is a young fowl or chicken, and may well be applied to the smaller species of fowls. But it has usurped the place of fowl and is used improperly as the generic term.

FOWL is used as a collective noun. We dined on fish and fowl

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Genesis 1:20.

But this use in America is not frequent. We generally use the plural, fowls. The word is colloquially used for poultry, or rather, in a more limited sense, for barn door fowls.

FOWL, verb intransitive To catch or kill wild fowls for game or food; as by means of bird-lime, decoys, nets and snares, or by pursuing them with hawks, or by shooting.

FOWL'ER, noun A sportsman who pursues wild fowls, or takes or kills them for food.

FOWL'ING, participle present tense Pursuing or taking wild fowls.

FOWL'ING, noun The art or practice of catching or shooting fowls; also, falconry.

FOWL'INGPIECE, noun A light gun for shooting fowls.

FOX. noun

1. An animal of the genus Canis, with a straight tail, yellowish or straw-colored hair, and erect ears. This animal burrows in the earth, is remarkable for his cunning, and preys on lambs, geese, hens or other small animals.

2. A sly, cunning fellow.

3. In seaman's language, a seizing made by twisting several rope-yarns together.

4. Formerly, a cant expression for a sword.

FOX, verb transitive To intoxicate; to stupify. [Not used.]

FOX'CASE, noun The skin of a fox. [Not used.]

FOX'CHASE, noun The pursuit of a fox with hounds.

FOX'ERY, noun Behavior like that of a fox. [Not in use.]

FOX'EVIL, noun A kind of disease in which the fair falls off.

FOX'GLOVE, noun The name of a plant, the Digitalis.

FOX'HOUND, noun A hound for chasing foxes.

FOX'HUNT, noun The chase or hunting of a fox.

FOX'HUNTER, noun One who hunts or pursues foxes with hounds.

FOX'ISH,

FOX'LIKE, adjective Resembling a fox in qualities; cunning.

FOX'SHIP, noun The character or qualities of a fox; cunning.

FOX'TAIL, noun A species of grass, the Alopecurus.

FOX'TRAP, noun A trap, or a gin or snare to catch foxes.

FOX'Y, adjective Pertaining to foxes; wily. [Not used.]

FOY, noun Faith. [Not used.]