All forbrosed, both back and side.
Chaucer.
For*by" (?), adv. & prep. [See Foreby.] Near; hard by; along; past.
[Obs.]
To tell her if her child went ought forby.
Chaucer.
To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the
city without let.
Robynson (More's Utopia).
For*carve" (?), v. t. To cut completely; to cut off. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Force (?), v. t. [See Farce to stuff.] To stuff; to lard; to farce.
[R.]
Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit.
Shak.
Force, n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. fors, foss, Dan. fos.] A
waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.]
To see the falls for force of the river Kent.
T. Gray.
Force, n. [F. force, LL. forcia, fortia, fr. L. fortis strong. See
Fort, n.] 1. 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.
He was, in the full force of the words, a good man.
Macaulay.
2. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence;
coercion.
Which now they hold by force, and not by right.
Shak.
3. 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.
Is Lucius general of the forces?
Shak.
4. (Law) (a) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to
law, upon persons or things; violence. (b) Validity; efficacy. Burrill.
5. (Physics) 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.
Animal force (Physiol.), muscular force or energy. -- Catabiotic force
[Gr. &?; down (intens.) + &?; life.] (Biol.), the influence exerted by
living structures on adjoining cells, by which the latter are developed
in harmony with the primary structures. -- Centrifugal force,
Centripetal force, Coercive force, etc. See under Centrifugal,
Centripetal, etc. -- Composition of forces, Correlation of forces, etc.
See under Composition, Correlation, etc. -- Force and arms [trans. of
L. vi et armis] (Law), an expression in old indictments, signifying
violence. -- In force, or Of force, of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of
full virtue; not suspended or reversed. "A testament is of force after
men are dead." Heb. ix. 17. -- Metabolic force (Physiol.), the
influence which causes and controls the metabolism of the body. -- No
force, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account; hence, to do no
force, to make no account of; not to heed. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Of force,
of necessity; unavoidably; imperatively. "Good reasons must, of force,
give place to better." Shak. -- Plastic force (Physiol.), the force
which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues. -- Vital
force (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in
organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital
phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces
generally known.
Syn. -- Strength; vigor; might; energy; stress; vehemence; violence;
compulsion; coaction; constraint; coercion. -- Force, Strength.
Strength looks rather to power as an inward capability or energy. Thus
we speak of the strength of timber, bodily strength, mental strength,
strength of emotion, etc. Force, on the other hand, looks more to the
outward; as, the force of gravitation, force of circumstances, force of
habit, etc. We do, indeed, speak of strength of will and force of will;
but even here the former may lean toward the internal tenacity of
purpose, and the latter toward the outward expression of it in action.
But, though the two words do in a few cases touch thus closely on each
other, there is, on the whole, a marked distinction in our use of force
and strength. "Force is the name given, in mechanical science, to
whatever produces, or can produce, motion." Nichol.
Thy tears are of no force to mollify This flinty man.
Heywood.
More huge in strength than wise in works he was.
Spenser.
Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found
Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of despair.
Milton.
Force (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing
(?).] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force,
n.] 1. 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.
2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on
the mind.
3. 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 force their monarch and insult the court.
Dryden.