Part 4468

<blockquote>And <b>for</b> of long that way had walk\'82d none, The vault was hid with plants and bushes hoar. <i>Fairfax.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And Heaven defend your good souls, that you think I will your serious and great business scant, <b>For</b> she with me. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to <i>since</i>, or <i>because</i>, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.</def>

<blockquote>Give thanks unto the Lord; <b>for</b> he is good; <b>for</b> his mercy endureth forever. <i>Ps. cxxxvi. 1.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; <b>for</b> if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>For because</col>, <cd>because. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Nor <i>for because<i> they set less store by their own citizens."</cd> <i>Robynson (More's Utopia).</i> -- <col>For why</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Why; for that reason; wherefore. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Because. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Forwhy</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Because</er>.</syn>

<h1>For</h1> <Xpage=581>

<hw>For</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of <i>against</i>, and commonly used in connection with it.</def>

<cs><col>The fors and against</col>. <cd>those in favor and those opposed; the pros and the cons; the advantages and the disadvantages.</cd></cs>

<i>Jane Austen.</i>

<h1>Forage</h1> <Xpage=581>

<hw>For"age</hw> <tt>(?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>fourage</ets>, F. <ets>fourrage</ets>, fr. <ets>forre</ets>, <ets>fuerre</ets>, fodder, straw, F. <ets>feurre</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>foderum</ets>, <ets>fodrum</ets>, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. <ets>fuotar</ets>, G. <ets>futter</ets>. See <er>Fodder</er> food, and cf. <er>Foray</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.</def>

<blockquote>He [the lion] from <b>forage</b> will incline to play. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>One way a band select from <b>forage</b> drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Mawhood completed his <b>forage</b> unmolested. <i>Marshall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<cs><col>Forage cap</col>. <cd>See under <er>Cap</er>.</cd> -- <col>Forage master</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it.</cd> <i>Farrow.</i></cs>

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<hw>For"age</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Foraged</er> ; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Foraging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.</def>

<blockquote>His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp <b>Forage</b> in blood of French nobility. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Foraging ant</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>one of several species of ants of the genus <spn>Eciton</spn>, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food.</cd> -- <col>Foraging cap</col>, <cd>a forage cap.</cd> -- <col>Foraging party</col>, <cd>a party sent out after forage.</cd></cs>

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<hw>For"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; <as>as, to <ex>forage</ex> steeds</as>.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

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<hw>For"a*ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who forages.</def>