Part 4504

<note>&hand; This is etymologically the preferable spelling.</note>

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<hw>For*fer"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>For-</er>, and <er>Fear</er>.]</ety> <def>Excessively alarmed; in great fear.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Forfered</i> of his death."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Forfete</h1> <Xpage=585>

<hw>For"fete</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Forfeit</er>.]</ety> <def>To incur a penalty; to transgress.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never <b>forfeted</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Forfex</h1> <Xpage=585>

<hw>For"fex</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>A pair of shears.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Forficate</h1> <Xpage=585>

<hw>For"fi*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>forfex</ets>, <ets>forficis</ets>, shears.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.</def>

<h1>Forficula</h1> <Xpage=585>

<hw>For*fic"u*la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., small shears, scissors, dim. of <ets>forfex</ets> shears.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of insects including the earwigs. See <er>Earwig</er>, 1.</def>

<h1>Forgather</h1> <Xpage=585>

<hw>For*gath"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Jamieson.</i>

<blockquote>Within that circle he <b>forgathered</b> with many a fool. <i>Wilson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Forgave</h1> <Xpage=585>

<hw>For*gave"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp.</tt> of <er>Forgive</er>.</def>

<h1>Forge</h1> <Xpage=585>

<hw>Forge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>forge</ets>, fr. L. <ets>fabrica</ets> the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. <ets>faber</ets> artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. <?/ soft, tender. Cf. <er>Fabric</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>In the quick <b>forge</b> and working house of thought. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>In the greater bodies the <b>forge</b> was easy. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>American forge</col>, <cd>a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously.</cd> <i>Raymond.</i> -- <col>Catalan forge</col>. <fld>(Metal.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Catalan</er>.</cd> -- <col>Forge cinder</col>, <cd>the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Forge rolls</col>, <col>Forge train</col></mcol>, <cd>the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.</cd> -- <col>Forge wagon</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.</cd> -- <col>Portable forge</col>, <cd>a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.</cd></cs>

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