Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders!
Shak.
Forth"right`ness, n. Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.
[Archaic]
Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.
Hawthorne.
Forth"ward (?), adv. [Forth, adv. + -ward.] Forward. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.
Forth`with" (? or ?; see With), adv. 1. Immediately; without delay;
directly.
Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he
received sight forthwith.
Acts ix. 18.
2. (Law) As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable
exertion confined to that object. Bouvier.
For*thy" (?), adv. [AS. for; for, prep. + , instrumental neut. of se,
seÛ, Êt, pron. demonstrative and article. See The.] Therefore. [Obs.]
Spenser.
For"ties (?), n. pl. See Forty.
For"ti*eth (?), a. [AS. feÛwertigo&?;a. See Forty.] 1. Following the
thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
2. Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is
divided.
For"ti*eth, n. One of forty equal parts into which one whole is
divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order
after the thirty-ninth.
For"ti*fi`a*ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. fortifiable.] Capable of being
fortified. Johnson.
For`ti*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. fortificatio : cf. F. fortification.] 1.
The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order
to defend them against an enemy.
2. That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend
a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a
castle.
Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.
Syn. -- Fortress; citadel; bulwark. See Fortress.
For"ti*fi`er (?), n. One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens,
supports, or upholds.
For"ti*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fortified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Fortifying.] [F. fortifier, L. fortificare; fortis strong + -ficare (in
comp.) to make. See Fort, and -fy.] 1. To add strength to; to
strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
Timidity was fortified by pride.
Gibbon.
Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his
resolution.
Sir W. Scott.
2. To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding
with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible
against an attack by hostile forces.
For"ti*fy, v. i. To raise defensive works. Milton.
For"ti*lage (?; 48), n. [Cf. Fortalice.] A little fort; a blockhouse.
[Obs.] Spenser.