What should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture?
Shak.
Syn. -- Fine; mulct; amercement; penalty.
For*fend" (?), v. t. [Pref. for- + fend. See Forewend.] To prohibit; to
forbid; to avert. [Archaic]
Which peril heaven forefend!
Shak.
This is etymologically the preferable spelling.
For*fer"ed (?), p. p. & a. [See For- , and Fear.] Excessively alarmed;
in great fear. [Obs.] "Forfered of his death." Chaucer.
For"fete (?), v. i. [See Forfeit.] To incur a penalty; to transgress.
[Obs.]
And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never forfeted.
Chaucer.
||For"fex (?), n. [L.] A pair of shears. Pope.
For"fi*cate (?), a. [L. forfex, forficis, shears.] (Zoˆl.) Deeply
forked, as the tail of certain birds.
||For*fic"u*la (?), n. [L., small shears, scissors, dim. of forfex
||shears.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of insects including the earwigs. See
||Earwig, 1.
For*gath"er (?), v. i. To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
[Scot.] Jamieson.
Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool.
Wilson.
For*gave" (?), imp. of Forgive.
Forge (frj), n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan
who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj.,
skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. &?; soft, tender. Cf. Fabric.] 1. 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.
In the quick forge and working house of thought.
Shak.
2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or
where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling
mill.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of
metallic bodies. [Obs.]
In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
Bacon.
American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron,
differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore
and working continuously. Raymond. -- Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under
Catalan. -- Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
-- Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is
converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up
for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a
light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be
moved from place to place.
Forge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged (frjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Forging (?).]
[F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame,
fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.] 1. To form by
heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.
Shak.