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goods, or that is heir apparent to her an- 

 cestors, by force and against her will, and 

 afterwards she be married to him, or lo 

 another by his procurement, or defiled, 

 he, and also the procurers and receivers 

 of such a woman, shall be adjudged prin- 

 cipal felons. And by 39 Eliz. c. 9, the 

 benefit of clergy is taken away from the 

 principals, procurers, and accessaries be- 

 fore. And by 4 and 5 Phil, and Mary, c. 

 8, if any person shall take or convey 

 away any unmarried woman, under the 

 age of sixteen, (though not attended with 

 force,) he shall be imprisoned two years, 

 or fined, at the discretion of the court ; 

 and if he deflower her, or contract ma- 

 trimony with her without the consent of 

 her parent or guardian, he shall be im- 

 prisoned five years, or fined in like man- 

 ner. And the marriage of any person 

 under the age of twenty-one, by licence, 

 without such consent, is void. 



FORCING, among gardeners, signifies 

 the making trees produce ripe fruit be- 

 fore their usual time. This is done by 

 planting them in a hot-bed against a 

 south-wall, and likewise defending them 

 from the injuries of the weather by a 

 glass frame. They should always be 

 grown trees, as young ones are apt to be 

 destroyed by this management. The 

 glasses must be taken oft' at proper sea- 

 sons, to admit the benefit of fresh air, 

 and especially of gentle showers. 



FORECASTLE, in naval affairs, a short 

 deck placed in the fore-part of the ship 

 above the upper deck ; it is usually ter- 

 minated both before and behind in ves- 

 sels of war by a breast-work, the fore- 

 most part forming the top of the beak- 

 head, and the hind part reaching to the 

 after part of the fore chains. Forecas- 

 tle men, are sailors stationed there, and 

 are of the best kind as to experience and 

 discipline. 



Fonvfoot, in ship-building, a piece of 

 timber which terminates the keel at the 

 fore-end ; it is connected by a scarf to 

 the extremity of the keel, and the other 

 end of it, which is incurvated upwards in- 

 to a sort of knee, is attached to the lower 

 end of the stem? ; it is also called a 

 gripe. tKs 



FORE foot, in the sea-language, signi- 

 fies one ship's lying, or sailing, across 

 another's way : as if two ships being 

 under sail, and in ken of one another, 

 one of them lying in her course with her 

 stem so much a-weather the other, that, 

 holding on their several ways, neither of 

 them altering their courses, the wind- 

 ward ship will run a-head of the other : 



then it is said, such a ship lies with other's 

 fore foot. 



FOREIGN sea/new, serving two years on 

 board British ships, whether of war, 

 trade, or privateers, during the time of 

 war, shall be deemed natural born sub- 

 jects. 



FORELORN hope, in the military art, 

 signifies men detached from several re- 

 giments, or otherwise appointed, to make 

 the first attack in day of battle, or, at a 

 siege, to storm the counterscar.., mount 

 the breach, or the like. They are so 

 called, from the great danger they are un- 

 avoidably exposed to ; but the word is old, 

 and begins lo be obsolete. 



FOREMAST of a ship, a large, round 

 piece of timber, placed in her fore-part, 

 or fore-castle, and carrying the fore-sail 

 and fore -top -sail yards. Its length is usu- 

 ally * of the main-mast. And the fore- 

 top-gallant mast is the length of the 

 fore-top-mast. See MAST. 



FOREMAST men, are those on board a 

 ship that take in the top sails, fling the 

 yards, furl the sails, bowse, trice, and take 

 their turn at the helm, &c. 



FORE reach, in the sea language, a ship 

 is said to tore reach upon another, when, 

 both sailing together, one sails better, or 

 outgoeth the ovher. 



FORESCHOKE, in our old authors, 

 signifies the same with forsaken, and is 

 particularly used in one of our statutes 

 for lands or tenements seised by the lord 

 for want of services performed by his 

 tenant, and quietly held by such lord 

 above a year and a day, without any due 

 course of law taken by the tenant for 

 recovery thereof; here he does in pre- 

 sumption of la\v disavow or forsake all 

 the rights he has thereto, for which rea- 

 son those lands shall be called fores- 

 choke. 



FORESKIN, in anatomy, the same witk 

 prepuce. See PREPUCE. 



FORE staff, or cross-staff, an instru- 

 ment used at sea for taking the altitude 

 of the sun, moon, or stars. It is called 

 fore-staff, because the observer, in using 

 it, turns his face towards the object ; 

 whereas, in using Davis's quadrant, the 

 back of the observer is towards the ob- 

 ject ; and hence its denomination of back- 

 staff: 



FORESTALLING, is the buying or 

 bargaining for any corn, cattle, or other 

 merchandize, by the way, before it comes 

 to any market or fair, to be sold ; or by 

 the way, as it comes from beyond the 

 seas, or otherwise, towards any city, 

 port, haven, or creek of this realm, to 



