Fōr'ger-y, n.

noun

n. 1. The act of forging or working metal into shape. [Obs.]

Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton.

Sense 2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially, the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing, to the prejudice of another's right; the making of a thing in imitation of another thing, with a view to deceive and defraud; counterfeiting; the fabrication of physical objects to deceive or mislead; as, the forgery of a bond, or of coin. Bouvier.

Sense 3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. “These are the forgeries of jealousy.” Shak.

The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. Waterland.