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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Fôrm'less-ness, n. p. 536The state of having no form.Fōr'mu-lā, n. p. 536A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which any thing is to be done, arranged, said, or the like. 2. (Eccl.) A written confession of faith; a formal…Fôr'mu-la-rĭst'ic, a. p. 536Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization. R. W. Emerson.Fôr'mu-lā-rĭ-zā'tion, n. p. 536The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.Fôr'mu-lar-îze, v. t. p. 536To reduce to a formula; to formulate.Fôr'mu-la-ry, n. p. 536A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, and the like; a book of precedents. 2. Prescribed form or model; formula.Fôr'mu-la-ry, a. p. 536Stated; prescribed; ritual.Fôr'mu-lāte, v. t. p. 536To reduce to a formula; to express in a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. G. P. Marsh. Lord Dufferin.Fôr'mûle, n. p. 536A set or prescribed model; formula. [Obs.] Johnson.Fôr'mu-līze, v. t. p. 536To reduce to a formula; to formulate. R. W. Emerson.Fôr'myl, n. p. 536(Chem.) The hypothetical base of formic acid. — Ure.Fôr'ni-ēâte or Fôr'ni-ēâ'ted, a. p. 536Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched. 2. (Bot.) Arching over; over-arched. Gray.Fôr'ni-cāte, v. i. p. 536To commit lewdness; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.Fôr'ni-cā'tion, n. p. 536The incontinence or lewdness of an unmarried person, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman. 2. (Script.) (a.) Adultery. (b.) Incest. (c.) Idolatry.…Fôr'ni-cā'tor, n. p. 536An 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; one guilty of fornication.Fôr'ni-cā'tress, n. p. 536An unmarried female guilty of lewdness. Shak.For-pâss’, v. i. p. 536To forepass. [Obs.] Spenser.For-pīne', v. i. p. 536To pine or waste away. [Obs.] Spenser.Fôr'rāy or For-rāy', v. t. p. 536To ravage. [Obs.] For they that morn had forraged all the land. Fairfax.Fôr'rây or For-rây', n. p. 536The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See FORAY.Fōr'rill, n. p. 536A kind of parchment; forel. Simmonds.For-sāke', v. t. p. 536To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. Forsake the foolish, and live. Prov. ix. 6. 2. To abandon…For-sāk'en-ness, n. p. 536State of being forsaken.For-sāk'er, n. p. 536One who forsakes or deserts.For-sāy', v. t. p. 536To forbid; to renounce. [Obs.]For-shāpe’, v. t. p. 536To render misshapen. [Obs.]For-slăck', v. t. p. 536To foreslack, q. v. [Obs.] Spenser.For-slōw', v. t. p. 536To foreslow, q. v. [Obs.] Spenser.For-sōoth', adv. p. 536In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; — often used ironically. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Forsooth appears to have been formerly a term used much with and by women, in a…For-spēak’, v. t. p. 536To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To injure by undue praise. 3. To forespeak, q. v.For-spĕnt', a. p. 536Forespent, q. v. [Obs.] Shak.For-stall', v. t. p. 536To forestall, q. v. Spenser.Fôr'ster, n. p. 536A forester. [Obs.] Chaucer.For-swat', a. p. 536Foreswat. See FORESWAT. Spenser.For-swêar', v. t. p. 536To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. “I . . . do forswear her?” Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As…For-sweâr', v. i. p. 536To swear falsely; to commit perjury. Shak.For-sweâr'er, n. p. 536One who rejects or denies upon oath; one who swears a false oath.For-swōnk', a. p. 536Overlabored. [Obs.]For-swōre', imp. p. 536of forswear.For-swōrn’, p. p. p. 536of forswear. Renounced on oath; perjured.For-swōrn'ness, n. p. 536The state of being forsworn.Fôrt, n. p. 536(Mil.) A fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a…Fōrt'al-īçe, n. p. 536(Mil.) A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; — called also fortelace. W. Scott.Fōrte, n. p. 537The strong point; that in which one excels. The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. Jeffrey.Fōr'te, adv. p. 537(Mus.) Loud; strong; powerfully.For-tēach’, v. t. p. 537To unteach; to contradict. [Obs.] Spenser.Fōrt'ed, a. p. 537Furnished with forts; guarded by forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts. A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of Time. Shak.Fōrth, adv. p. 537Forward; onward in time or in place; in advance from a given point; as, from that day forth; from that time forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the…Fōrth, prep. p. 537Forth from. [Obs.] Some forth their cabins peep. Donne.Förth, n. p. 537A way. [Obs.] Todd.Fōrth'-cōm'ing, a. p. 537Ready to appear; making appearance; as, the prisoner is forth-coming.Fōrth'-gō'ing, n. p. 537A going forth, or utterance; a proceeding out. Chalmers.Fōrth'-gō'ing, a. p. 537Going forth.For-thĭnk', v. t. p. 537To repent; to regret; to be sorry for. [Obs.] “Let it forthink you.” Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quad this January. Chaucer.Fōrth-rīght′, adv. p. 537Straight forward; in a straight direction. [Obs.] Sidney.Fōrth-rīght’, n. p. 537A straight path. [Obs.] Shak.Fōrth’ward, adv. p. 537Forward. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.Fōrth-wĭth', adv. p. 537Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith. Acts ix. 18. 2. (Law.) As soon as the thing required may be done by…Fōr’thy, adv. p. 537Therefore. [Obs.] Spenser.Fōr'ti-eth, a. p. 537Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine. 2. Constituting one of forty parts into which any thing is divided.