For"ty-spot` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird
(Pardalotus quadragintus).
Fo"rum (?), n.; pl. E. Forums (#), L. Fora (#). [L.; akin to foris,
foras, out of doors. See Foreign.] 1. A market place or public place in
Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the
people.
2. A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide
causes.
He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the
forum.
Brougham.
For*waked" (? or ?), p. p. & a. Tired out with excessive waking or
watching. [Obs.] Chaucer.
For*wan"der (?), v. i. To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and
to weariness. [Obs.]
For"ward (?), n. [OE., fr. AS. foreweard; fore before + weard a ward.
See Ward, n.] An agreement; a covenant; a promise. [Obs.]
Tell us a tale anon, as forward is.
Chaucer.
{ For"ward (?), For"wards (?) }, adv. [AS. forweard, foreweard; for,
fore + -weardes; akin to G. vorw‰rts. The s is properly a genitive
ending. See For, Fore, and -ward, -wards.] Toward a part or place
before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to
backward.
For"ward, a. 1. Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something
else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; too
hasty.
Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I
also was forward to do.
Gal. ii. 10.
Nor do we find him forward to be sounded.
Shak.
3. Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest
than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his
years.