| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| foray | noun | A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid., To pillage; to ravage. |
| forby | adverb & preposition | Near; hard by; along; past. |
| force | verb t. | To stuff; to lard; to farce., A waterfall; a cascade., Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; 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., Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion., 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., Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence., Validity; efficacy., 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., 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., To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind., 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 obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress., To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; — with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc., To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce., 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., To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none., To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison., To allow the force of; to value; to care for., To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor., To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard., To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. |
| fordo | verb i. | To destroy; to undo; to ruin., To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust. |
| forel | noun | A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill., To bind with a forel. |
| forge | noun | A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy., The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill., The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies., To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal., To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent., To coin., To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document., To commit forgery., 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., To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. |
| forgo | verb i. | To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego. |
| forky | adjective | Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. |
| forme | adjective | Same as Pate or Patte., First. |
| forte | noun | The strong point; that in which one excels., The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; — opposed to foible., Loudly; strongly; powerfully. |
| forth | adverb | Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth., Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves., Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out., Throughly; from beginning to end., Forth from; out of., A way; a passage or ford. |
| forty | adjective | Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more., The sum of four tens; forty units or objects., A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl. |
| forum | noun | A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people., A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes. |