Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 49
Forbidding (a.) Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
Syn: Disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; offensive; repulsive; odious; abhorrent. -- For*bid"ding*ly, adv. -- For*bid"ding*ness, n.
Forbidding (a.) Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw" -- J.M.Barrie [syn: dour, forbidding, grim].
Forbidding (a.) Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening].
Forbidding (n.) An official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding].
Forblack (a.) Very black. [Obs.]
As any raven's feathers it shone forblack. -- Chaucer.
Forboden () obs. p. p. of Forbid. -- Chaucer.
Forbore () imp. of Forbear.
Forborne () p. p. of Forbear.
Forbruise (v. t.) To bruise sorely or exceedingly. [Obs.]
All forbrosed, both back and side. -- Chaucer.
Forby (adv. & prep.) Near; hard by; along; past. [Obs.]
To tell her if her child went ought forby. -- Chaucer.
To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Forcarve (v. t.) To cut completely; to cut off. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Force (v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce. [R.]
Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. -- Shak.
Force (n.) A waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.]
To see the falls for force of the river Kent. -- T. Gray.
Force (n.) Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
He was, in the full force of the words, a good man. -- Macaulay.
Force (n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion; as, by force of arms; to take by force.
Which now they hold by force, and not by right. -- Shak.
Force (n.)
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants,
with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops;
warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared
for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation; the
armed forces.
Is Lucius general of the forces? -- Shak.
Force (n.) (Law) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
Force (n.) (Law) Validity; efficacy. -- Burrill.
Force (n.) (Physics) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
Animal force (Physiol.), Muscular force or energy.
Catabiotic force (Biol.), The influence exerted by living structures on adjoining cells, by which the latter are developed in harmony with the primary structures.
Centrifugal force, Centripetal force, Coercive force, etc. See under Centrifugal, Centripetal, etc.
Composition of forces, Correlation of forces, etc. See under Composition, Correlation, etc.
Force and arms (Law), An expression in old indictments, signifying violence.
In force, or Of force, Of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of full virtue; not suspended or reversed. "A testament is of force after men are dead." -- Heb. ix. 17.
Metabolic force (Physiol.), The influence which causes and controls the metabolism of the body.
No force, No matter of urgency or consequence; no account; hence, to do no force, to make no account of; not to heed. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Of force, Of necessity; unavoidably; imperatively. "Good reasons must, of force, give place to better." -- Shak.
Plastic force (Physiol.), The force which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues.
Vital force (Physiol.), That force or power which is inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces generally known.
Syn: Strength; vigor; might; energy; stress; vehemence; violence; compulsion; coaction; constraint; coercion.
Usage: Force, Strength. Strength looks rather to power as an inward capability or energy. Thus we speak of the strength of timber, bodily strength, mental strength, strength of emotion, etc. Force, on the other hand, looks more to the outward; as, the force of gravitation, force of circumstances, force of habit, etc. We do, indeed, speak of strength of will and force of will; but even here the former may lean toward the internal tenacity of purpose, and the latter toward the outward expression of it in action. But, though the two words do in a few cases touch thus closely on each other, there is, on the whole, a marked distinction in our use of force and strength. "Force is the name given, in mechanical science, to whatever produces, or can produce, motion." -- Nichol.
Thy tears are of no force to mollify This flinty man. -- Heywood.
More huge in strength than wise in works he was. -- Spenser.
Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of despair. -- Milton.
Forced (imp. & p. p.) of Force.
Forcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Force.
Force (v. t.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
Force (v. t.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
Force (v. t.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
To force their monarch and insult the court. -- Dryden.
I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. -- Milton.
To force a spotless virgin's chastity. -- Shak.
Force (v. t.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress ; as, to force the castle; to force a lock.
Force (v. t.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. -- Dryden.
To force the tyrant from his seat by war. -- Sahk.
Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. -- Fuller.
Force (v. t.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.]
What can the church force more? -- J. Webster.
Force (v. t.) To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. -- Dryden.
Force (v. t.) (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
Force (v. t.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Force (v. t.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.]
For me, I force not argument a straw. -- Shak.
Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel.
Force (v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart. -- Spenser.
Force (v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear. -- Shak.
I force not of such fooleries. -- Camden.
Force (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how. -- Udall.
Force (n.) A powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them".
Force (n.) (Physics) The influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration".
Force (n.) Physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man" [syn: force, forcefulness, strength].
Force (n.) Group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn: force, personnel].
Force (n.) A unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" [syn: military unit, military force, military group, force].
Force (n.) An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one" [syn: violence, force].
Force (n.) One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" [syn: power, force].
Force (n.) A group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers".
Force (n.) (Of a law) Having legal validity; "the law is still in effect" [syn: effect, force].
Force (n.) A putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force" [syn: force out, force-out, force play, force].
Force (v.) To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information" [syn: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force].
Force (v.) Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate [syn: impel, force].
Force (v.) Move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" [syn: push, force] [ant: draw, force, pull]
Force (v.) Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" [syn: force, thrust].
Force (v.) Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force].
Force (v.) Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram].
Force (v.) Cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" [syn: pull, draw, force] [ant: force, push].
Force (v.) Do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!"
Force (v.) Take by force; "Storm the fort" [syn: storm, force].
Force, () A dBASE dialect for MS-DOS.
FORCE. () A power put in motion. It is: 1. Actual; or 2. Implied.
FORCE. () If a person with force break a door or gate for an illegal purpose, it is lawful to oppose force to force; and if one enter the close of another, vi et armis, he may be expelled immediately, without a previous request; for there is no time to make a request. 2 Salk. 641; 8 T. R. 78, 357. And see tit. Battery, Sec. 2. When it is necessary to rely upon actual force in pleading, as in the case of a forcible entry, the words "manu forti," or with a strong hand should be adopted. 8 T. R. 357 358. But in other cases, the words "vi et armis," or "with force and arms," is sufficient. Id.
FORCE. () The entry into the ground of another, without his consent, is breaking his close, for force is implied in every trespass quare clausum fregit. 1 Salk. 641; Co. Litt. 257, b; 161, b; 162, a; 1 Saund: 81, 140, n. 4 8 T: R. 78, 358; Bac. Ab. Trespass; this Dict. tit. Close. In the case of false imprisonment, force is implied. 1 N. R. 255. And the same rule prevails where a wife, a daughter or servant, have been enticed away or debauched, though in fact they consented, the law considering them incapable of consenting. See 3 Wils. 18; Fitz. N. B. 89, 0; 5 T. R. 361; 6 East, 387; 2 N. R. 365, 454.
FORCE. () In general, a mere nonfeasance cannot be considered as forcible; for where there has been no act, there cannot be force, as in the case of the mere detention of goods without an unlawful taking. 2 Saund. 47, k 1. In general, by force is understood unlawful violence. Co. Litt. 161, b.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. Vide Arms.
FORCE, (n.) "Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just."
The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head: "Force is not might but must!"
Forced (a.) Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
Forced draught. See under Draught.
Forced march (Mil.), A march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- For"ced*ly, adv. -- For"ced*ness, n.
Forced (a.) Produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators".
Forced (a.) Forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor".
Forced (a.) Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing".
Forced (a.) Lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: constrained, forced, strained].
Forceful (a.) 強有力的；堅強的；有說服力的 Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- {Force"ful*ly}, adv.
Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. -- Dryden.
Forcefully (adv.) 強有力地 With full force; "we are seeing this film too late to feel its original impact forcefully".
Forceless (a.) 無力的；軟弱的 Having little or no force; feeble.
These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. -- Shak.
Forceless (a.) Lacking force; feeble; "a forceless argument" [syn: {forceless}, {unforceful}] [ant: {forceful}].
Forcemeat (n.) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
Forcement (n.) The act of forcing; compulsion.
Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
Forceps (n.) The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
Force pump (n.) 壓力泵 ; 液壓泵 A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
Force pump (n.) A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.
Force pump (n.) A pump with a solid piston for drawing and forcing through valves a liquid (such as water) to a considerable height above the pump or under a considerable pressure.
Forcer (n.) One who, or that which, forces or drives.
Forcer (n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
Forcer (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
Forcible (a.) . 強迫的，強制的；強有力的；有說服力的 Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
How forcible are right words! -- Job. vi. 2?.
Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken. -- Bacon.
But I have reasons strong and forcible. -- Shak.
That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. -- Hooker.
He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. -- Lowth (Transl. )
Forcible (a.) Violent; impetuous.
Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined. -- Prior.
Forcible (a.) Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
In embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust. -- Swift.
{Forcible entry and detainer} (Law), the entering upon and taking and withholding of land and tenements by actual force and violence, and with a strong hand, to the hindrance of the person having the right to enter.
Syn: Violent; powerful; strong; energetic; mighty; potent; weighty; impressive; cogent; influential.
Forcible (a.) Impelled by physical force especially against resistance; "forcible entry"; "a real cop would get physical"; "strong-arm tactics" [syn: {forcible}, {physical}, {strong-arm}].
Forcible-feeble (a.) Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
Forcibleness (n.) The quality of being forcible.
Forcibly (adv.) 強迫地，強制地；強有力地；有說服力地 In a forcible manner.
Forcibly (adv.) In a forcible manner; "keep in mind the dangers of imposing our own values and prejudices too forcibly".
Forcing (n.) The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
Forcing (n.) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.
Forcipal (a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
Forcipate (a.) Alt. of Forcipated
Forcipated (a.) Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.
Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.
Forcut (v. t.) To cut completely; to cut off.
Ford (v. i.) A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
Ford (v. i.) A stream; a current.
Forded (imp. & p. p.) of Ford.
Fording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ford.
Ford (v. t.) To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
Fordable (a.) Capable of being forded.
Fordless (a.) Without a ford.
Fordo (v. i.) To destroy; to undo; to ruin.
Fordo (v. i.) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
Fordone (a.) Undone; ruined.
Fordrive (v. t.) To drive about; to drive here and there.
Fordrunken (a.) Utterly drunk; very drunk.
Fordry (a.) Entirely dry; withered.
Fordwine (v. i.) To dwindle away; to disappear.
Fore (v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.
Fore (adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
Fore (adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.
Fore (adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
Fore (adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
Fore (n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
Fore (prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
Foreadmonish (v. t.) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
Foreadvise (v. t.) To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.
Forealleged (imp. & p. p.) of Foreallege.
Forealleging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foreallege.
Foreallege (v. t.) To allege or cite before.
Foreappoint (v. t.) To set, order, or appoint, beforehand.
Foreappointment (n.) Previous appointment; preordinantion.
Forearm (v. t.) 預先武裝，准備 To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.
Forearm (n.) (Anatomy) 前臂 That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
Forebeam (n.) The breast beam of a loom.
Forebear (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.
Foreboded (imp. & p. p.) of Forebode.
Foreboding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forebode.
Forebode (v. t.) (v. t.) (v. i.)預示，預兆，預感 To foretell.
Forebode (v. t.) To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
Forebode (v. i.) To fortell; to presage; to augur.
Forebode (n.) Prognostication; presage.
Forebode (v.) Make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell}, {prognosticate}, {call}, {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}].
Forebodement (n.) 預感 The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
Foreboder (n.) One who forebodes.
Foreboding (n.) 預感，先兆，預兆 Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
Foreboding (a.) Ominously prophetic [syn: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)}, {portentous}].
Foreboding (n.) A feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: {foreboding}, {premonition}, {presentiment}, {boding}].
Foreboding (n.) An unfavorable omen.
Forebodingly (adv.) In a foreboding manner.
Forebrace (n.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
Forebrain (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.