Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 53
Forge (v. t.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. -- Shak.
Forge (v. t.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. -- Locke.
Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. -- Tennyson.
Forge (v. t.) To coin. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forge (v. t.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. -- Hudibras.
Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. -- Macaulay.
Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.
Forge (v. i.) To commit forgery.
Forge (v. i.) (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. -- Totten.
And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. -- De Quincey.
Forge (v. t.) (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
Forge (n.) Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping.
Forge (n.) A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering [syn: forge, smithy].
Forge (v.) Create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" [syn: forge, hammer].
Forge (v.) Make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" [syn: forge, fake, counterfeit].
Forge (v.) Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge].
Forge (v.) Move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead".
Forge (v.) Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy [syn: forge, spurt, spirt].
Forge (v.) Make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" [syn: shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge].
Forge (v.) Make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" [syn: fashion, forge].
Forgemen (n. pl. ) of Forgeman.
Forgeman (n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.
Forger (n. ) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
Forger (n. ) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
Forger (n.) Someone who operates a forge.
Forger (n.) Someone who makes copies illegally [syn: forger, counterfeiter].
Forgeries (n. pl. ) of Forgery.
Forgery (n.) The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.]
Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. -- Milton.
Forgery (n.) （文件、藝術品等的）偽造 [U]；偽造物，贗品 [C] The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. -- Bouvier.
Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
These are the forgeries of jealously. -- Shak.
The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. -- Waterland.
Syn: Counterfeit; Forgery.
Usage: Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity. -- Abbott.
Forgery (n.) A copy that is represented as the original [syn: counterfeit, forgery].
Forgery (n.) Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud.
Forgery, () crim. law. Forgery at common law has been held to be "the fraudulent making and alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right." 4 Bl. Com. 247. By a more modern writer, it is defined, as "a false making; a making malo animo, of any written instrument, for the purpose of fraud and deceit." 2 East, P. C. 852.
Forgery, () This offence at common law is of the degree of a misdemeanor. 2 Russell, 1437. There are many kinds of forgery, especially subjected to punishment by statutes enacted by the national and state legislatures.
Forgery, () The subject will be considered, with reference, 1. To the making or alteration requisite to constitute forgery. 2. The written instruments in respect of which forgery may be committed. 3. The fraud and deceit to the prejudice of another man's right.
Forgery, () The statutory provisions under the laws of the United States, on the subject of forgery.
Forgery, () The making of a whole written instrument in the name of another with a fraudulent intent is undoubtedly a sufficient making but a fraudulent insertion, alteration, or erasure, even of a letter, in any material part of the instrument, whereby a new operation is given to it, will amount to a forgery; and this, although it be afterwards executed by a person ignorant of the deceit. 2 East, P. C. 855.
Forgery, () The fraudulent application of a true signature to a false instrument for which it was not intended, or vice versa, will also be a forgery. For example, it is forgery in an individual who is requested to draw a will for a sick person in a particular way, instead of doing so, to insert legacies of his own head, and then procuring the signature of such sick person to be affixed to the paper without revealing to him the legacies thus fraudulently inserted. Noy, 101; Moor, 759, 760; 3 Inst. 170; 1 Hawk. c. 70, s. 2; 2 Russ. on Cr. 318; Bac. Ab. h.t. A.
Forgery, () It has even been intimated by Lord Ellenborough, that a party who makes a copy of a receipt, and adds to such copy material words not in the original, and then offers it in evidence on the ground that the original has been lost, may be prosecuted for forgery. 5 Esp. R. 100.
Forgery, () It is a sufficient making where, in the writing, the party assumes the name and character of a person in existence. 2 Russ. 327. But the adoption of a false description and addition, where a false name is not assumed, and there is no person answering the description, is not a forgery. Russ. & Ry. 405.
Forgery, () Making an instrument in a fictitious name, or the name of a non-existing person, is equally a forgery, as making it in the name of au existing person; 2 East, P. C. 957; 2 Russ. on Cr. 328; and although a man may make the instrument in his own name, if he represent it as the instrument of another of the same name, when in fact there is no such person, it will be a forgery in the name of a non-existing person.; 2 Leach, 775; 2 East, P. C. 963; but the correctness of this decision has been doubted. Rosc. Cr. Ev. 384.
Forgery, () Though, in general, a party cannot be guilty of forgery by a mere non-feasance, yet, if in drawing a will, he should fraudulently omit a legacy, which he had been directed to insert, and by the omission of such bequest, it would cause a material alteration in the limitation of a bequest to another; as, where the omission of a devise of an estate for life to one, causes a devise of the same lands to another to pass a present estate which would otherwise have passed a remainder only, it would be a forgery. Moor, 760; Noy, 101; 1 Hawk. c. 70, s. 6; 2 East, P. C. 856; 2 Russ. on Cr. 320.
Forgery, () It may be observed, that the offence of forgery may be complete without a publication of the forged instrument. 2 East, P. C. 855; 3 Chit. Cr. L. 1038.
Forgery, () With regard to the thing forged, it may be observed, that it has been holden to be forgery at common law fraudulently to falsify, or falsely make records and other matters of a public nature; 1 Rolle's Ab. 65, 68; a parish register; 1 Hawk. c. 70; a letter in the name of a magistrate, the governor of a gaol, directing the discharge of prisoner. 6 Car. & P. 129; S. C. 25 Eng. C. L. R. 3 1 5.
Forgery, () With regard to private writings, it is forgery fraudulently to falsify or falsely to make a deed or will; 1 Hawk. b. 1, c. 70, s. 10 or any private document, whereby another person may be prejudiced. Greenl. Rep. 365; Addis. R. 33; 2 Binn. R. 322; 2 Russ. on Or. b. 4, c. 32, s. 2; 2 East, P. C. 861; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 1022 to 1038.
Forgery, () The intent must be to defraud another, but it is not requisite that any one should have been injured it is sufficient that the instrument forged might have proved prejudicial. 3 Gill & John. 220; 4 W. C. C. R. 726. It has been holden that the jury ought to infer an intent to defraud the person who would have to pay the instrument, if it were genuine, although from the manner of executing the forgery, or from the person's ordinary caution, it would not be likely to impose upon him; and although the object was general to defraud whoever might take the instrument, and the intention of the defrauding in particular, the person who would have to pay the instrument, if genuine, did not enter into the contemplation of the prisoner. Russ. & Ry. 291; vide Russ.. on Cr. b. 4, c. 32, s. 3; 2 East, P. C. 853; 1 Leach, 367; 2 Leach, 775; Rosc. Cr. Ev. 400.
Forgery, () Most, and perhaps all the states in the Union, have passed laws making certain acts to be forgery, and the national legislature has also enacted several on this subject, which are here referred to. Act of March 2, 1803, 2 Story's L. U. S. 888; Act of March 3, 1813, 2 Story's L. U. S. 1304 Act of March 1, 1823, 3 Story's L. U. S. 1889; Act of March 3, 1825, 3 Story's L. U. S. 2003; Act of October 12, 1837, 9 Laws U. S. 696.
Forgery, () The term forgery, is also applied to the making of false or counterfeit coin. 2 Virg. Cas. 356. See 10 Pet. 613; 4 Wash. C. C. 733. For the law respecting the forgery of coin, see article Money. And for the act of congress punishing forgery in the District of Columbia, see 4 Sharsw. Cont, of Story's Laws U. S. 2234. Vide, generally, Hawk. b. 1, c. 51 and 70; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 1022 to 1048; 4 Bl. Com. 247 to 250; 2 East, P. C. 840 to 1003; 2 Russ. on Cr. b. 4, c. 32; 13 Vin. Ab. 459; Com. Dig. h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t. Williams' Just. h.t. Burn's Just. h.t.; Rose. Cr. Ev. h.t.; Stark. Ev. h.t. Vide article Frank.
Forgot (imp.) of Forget.
Forgat () of Forget.
Forgotten (p. p.) of Forget.
Forgot () of Forget.
Forgetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forget.
Forget (v. t.) (v. t.) 忘記 [+to-v] [+v-ing] [+（that）] [+wh-]；忘記帶（或買等）； 不再把……放在心上 (v. i.) 忘記 [（+about）] To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. -- Ps. ciii. 2.
Let my right hand forget her cunning. -- Ps. cxxxvii. 5.
Hath thy knee forget to bow? -- Shak.
Forget (v. t.) To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.
Can a woman forget her sucking child? . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. -- Is. xlix. 15.
To forget one's self. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought.
To forget one's self. (b) To be entirely unselfish.
To forget one's self. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.
Forget (v.) Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget, bury] [ant: remember, think of].
Forget (v.) Be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!" [syn: forget, block, blank out, draw a blank] [ant: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve, think].
Forget (v.) Forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" [ant: bear in mind, mind].
Forget (v.) Leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors" [syn: forget, leave].
Forget (v.) (Present participle forgetting, past tense forgot, past participle forgotten) (Not remember) (B1) [ I or T ] 忘記，遺忘 To be unable to remember a fact, something that happened, or how to do something.
// I'm sorry, I've forgotten your name.
// Let me write down that date before I forget it.
// I completely forgot about Jenny's party.
// [ + (that) ] We had forgotten (that) she doesn't come on Thursdays.
// I'm sorry, I was forgetting (= I had forgotten) (that) you would be away in August.
// [ + -ing verb ] She would never forget seeing the Himalayas for the first time.
// [ + question word ] I've forgotten what you do next/ how to do it.
// I never forget a face (= I'm good at remembering people).
Not forgetting (UK) 包括 Including.
// This is where we keep all the books, not forgetting the magazines and newspapers.
Forget (v.) (Not do) (A1) [ I + to infinitive, T ] 忘記做 To not remember to do something.
// Don't forget to lock the door.
// Dad's always forgetting (to take) his pills.
Forget (v.) (Not bring) (A2) [ T ] 忘記帶 To not bring something with you because you did not remember it.
// I forgot my keys.
Forget (v.) (Stop thinking) (B1) [ I or T ] 忘掉，不再想 To stop thinking about someone or something.
// He tried to forget her.
// It seemed unlikely that the debt would ever be paid off so we just forgot (about) it.
Forget (v.) (Behave badly)
Forget yourself 舉止不得體，失態 To act in a socially unacceptable way because you have lost control of your emotions.
// He was so angry he forgot himself and swore loudly.
Idiom: And don't you forget it
And don't you forget it 你可別忘了這一點 Used to tell someone that a particular fact is important and it should influence the way they behave.
// I've been in the job longer than you and don't you forget it!
Idiom: Forget it
Forget it (Informal) 休想，不可能 Used to tell someone that what they want is impossible.
// "I'd like to take next week off." "Forget it, we're way too busy".
Idiom: Forget it
Forget it (Informal) (B2) 沒關係，不必在意 Used to tell someone that something is not important and not to worry about it.
// "I'm so sorry about that cup." "Oh, forget it - I've got plenty".
Forgetful (a.) Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
Forgetful (a.) Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
Forgetful (a.) Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
Forgetfully (adv.) In a forgetful manner.
Forgetfulness (n.) The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
Forgetfulness (n.) Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
Forgetfulness (n.) Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
Forgetive (a.) Inventive; productive; capable.
Forget-me-not (n.) A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
Forgettable (a.) Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.
Forgetter (n.) One who forgets; a heedless person.
Forgettingly (adv.) By forgetting.
Forging (n.) The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.
Forging (n.) The act of counterfeiting.
Forging (n.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
Forgivable (a.) Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
Forgave (imp.) of Forgive.
Forgiven (p. p.) of Forgive.
Forgiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forgive.
Forgive (v. t.) [W] 原諒，寬恕 [（+for）] [O1]；豁免 [O1] To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. -- Spenser.
Forgive (v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
And their sins should be forgiven them. -- Mark iv. 12.
He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them. -- Macaulay.
Forgive (v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. -- Luke xxiii. 34.
I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven. -- Shak.
Note: Sometimes both the person and the offense follow as objects of the verb, sometimes one and sometimes the other being the indirect object. "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." -- Matt. vi. 12. "Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." -- Matt. ix. 2.
Syn: See excuse.
Forgiveness (n.) 寬恕，寬仁之心 The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
Forgiveness (n.) Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
Forgiver (n.) 寬恕者；【宗】（中世紀）售赦罪符者 One who forgives.
Forgiver (n.) A person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense. (Syn:) Excuser, Pardoner.
Forgiving (a.) Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.
Forwent (imp.) of Forgo.
Forgone (p. p.) of Forgo.
Forgoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forgo.
Forgo (v. i.) To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
Forgot () imp. & p. p. of Forget.
Forgotten () p. p. of Forget.
Forhall (v. t.) To harass; to torment; to distress.
Forhend (v. t.) To seize upon.
Forinsecal (a.) Foreign; alien.
Forisfamiliated (imp. & p. p.) of Forisfamiliate.
Forisfamiliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forisfamiliate.
Forisfamiliate (v. t.) Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority.
Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
Forisfamiliation (n.) The act of forisfamiliating.
Fork (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
Fork (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
Fork (n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
Fork (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
Fork (n.) The gibbet.
Forked (imp. & p. p.) of Fork.
Forking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fork.
Fork (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.
Fork (v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
Fork (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Forkbeard (n.) A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.
Forkbeard (n.) The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.
Forked (a.) Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
Forked (a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
Forkerve (v. t.) See Forcarve, v. t.
Forkiness (n.) The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.
Forkless (a.) Having no fork.
Forktail (n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.
Forktail (n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.
Forky (a.) Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.
Forlaft () p. p. of Forleave.
Forlay (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to ambush.
Forleave (v. t.) To leave off wholly.
Forlend (v. t.) To give up wholly.
Forlore (p. p.) of Forlese.
Forlorn () of Forlese.
Forlese (v. t.) To lose utterly.
Forlet (v. t.) To give up; to leave; to abandon.
Forlie (v. i.) See Forelie.
Forlore () imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese.
Forlorn (v. t.) Deserted; abandoned; lost.
Forlorn (v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
Forlorn (n.) A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
Forlorn (n.) A forlorn hope; a vanguard.
Forlornly (adv.) In a forlorn manner.
Forlornness (n.) State of being forlorn.
Forlye (v. i.) Same as Forlie.