FPage 161
- English Word Forbiddenly Definition In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
- English Word Forbidder Definition One who forbids.
- English Word Forbidding Definition of Forbid
- English Word Forbidding Definition Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
- English Word Forblack Definition Very black.
- English Word Forboden Definition p. p. of Forbid.
- English Word Forbore Definition of Forbear
- English Word Forbore Definition imp. of Forbear.
- English Word Forborne Definition of Forbear
- English Word Forborne Definition p. p. of Forbear.
- English Word Forbruise Definition To bruise sorely or exceedingly.
- English Word Forby Definition Near; hard by; along; past.
- English Word Forcarve Definition To cut completely; to cut off.
- English Word Force Definition To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- English Word Force Definition A waterfall; a cascade.
- English Word Force Definition 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.
- English Word Force Definition Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- English Word Force Definition 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.
- English Word Force Definition Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
- English Word Force Definition Validity; efficacy.
- English Word Force Definition 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.
- English Word Force Definition 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.
- English Word Force Definition To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
- English Word Force Definition To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
- English Word Force Definition To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- English Word Force Definition To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
- English Word Force Definition To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
- English Word Force Definition 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.
- English Word Force Definition To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
- English Word Force Definition To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.