||For*syth"i*a (?), a. [NL. Named after William Forsyth, who brought in
||from China.] (Bot.) A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow
||blossoms.
Fort (?), n. [F., from fort strong, L. fortis; perh. akin to Skr. darh
to fix, make firm, and to E. firm Cf. Forte, Force, Fortalice, Comfort,
Effort.] (Mil.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified
place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and
parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a
fortification.
Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to
the class of works termed forts.
Farrow.
Fort"a*lice (?), n. [LL. fortalitia, or OF. fortelesce. See Fortress.]
(Mil.) A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; - - called also
fortelace.
Forte (frt), n. [IT. forte: cf. F. fort. See Fort.] 1. The strong
point; that in which one excels.
The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our
modern poetical writers.
Jeffrey.
2. The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest
the hilt; -- opposed to foible.
||For"te (fÙr"t or fr"t), adv. [It. forte, a. & adv., fr. L. fortis
||strong.] (Mus.) Loudly; strongly; powerfully.
Fort"ed (?), a. Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or
defended, as by forts. [R.] Shak.
Forth (?), v.[AS. for, fr. for akin to D. voort, G. fort √78.
See Fore, For, and cf. Afford, Further, adv.] 1. Forward; onward in
time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as,
from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.
Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of
the Acts forth.
Tyndale.
From this time forth, I never will speak word.
Shak.
I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I
was taught no more.
Strype.
2. Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement,
nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in
spring put forth leaves.
When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to
labor in the sun.
Dryden.