For*old" (?), a. Very old. [Obs.]

A bear's skin, coal-black, forold.

Chaucer.

For*pass" (?), v. t. & i. To pass by or along; to pass over. [Obs.]

Spenser.

For*pine" (?), v. t. To waste away completely by suffering or torment.

[Archaic] "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer.

For"ray (? or ?), v. t. [OE. forrayen. See Foray.] To foray; to ravage;

to pillage.

For they that morn had forrayed all the land.

Fairfax.

For"ray, n. The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See

Foray.

For"rill (?), n. [See Forel.] Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel.

McElrath.

For*sake" (?), v. t. [imp. Forsook (?); p. p. Forsaken (?); p. pr. &

vb. n. Forsaking.] [AS. forsacan to oppose, refuse; for- + sacan to

contend, strive; akin to Goth. sakan. See For-, and Sake.] 1. To quit

or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from;

to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments.

Ps. lxxxix. 30.

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