forfeit 
doors, beyond, + facere, do: see/or- ancl/of. 
Cf. forfeit, n.] I. trans. I. To lose the legal 
or moral right to by one's own act or omission 
to act, usually by a breach of conditions or by a 
wrong act, offense, fault, crime, or neglect ; be- 
come by one's own act liable to be deprived of. 
How darest thou so olten forfeit thy life ? 
Thou kuowest it is in my power to take it. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, iv. 2. 
I would not lose her good-will, nor forfeit the reputa- 
tion which I have with her for wisdom. 
John lluttiol's forfeiture, his renunciation of homage, his 
cession of the crown to Edward, were all legal acts. 
Slubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 219. 
2. Specifically, in law, the divesting of prop- 
erty, or the termination or failure of a right, by 
or in consequence of a wrong, default, or breach 
of a condition. 3. That which is forfeited; a 
forfeit; a fine or mulct. 
The same forfetoures to be enployed, halfe to the said 
cite, and the oder halfe to the said ffraternite. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 336. 
Ancient privileges and acts of grace indulged by former 
kings must not without high reason be revoked by their 
successors, nor forfeitures be exacted violently, nor penal 
laws urged rigorously. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living. 
Title by forfeiture, title which is acquired by the person 
He who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to forfeture, forfaiture = Pr. forfaiture, forfacture, 
our idea as a person to whom we have ill some measure < ML| for^facfura, <forisfacere (> OF. forfaire, 
forfeited our freedom. - -" " " 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Ixvi. 
2. To cause the forfeiture of. 
Unhand me, and learn manners I such another 
Vorgettulliess forfeits your life. 
Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 1. 
3. To yield up as a forfeiture. 
Owners of farm-houses to which a holding of 20 acres 
is attached are bound to keep them ill repair, or forfeit 
half the profits to the king. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 363. 
4f. To subject to forfeiture. 
We mone lieforfetede in faith and flemyde [banished] for 
ever ! Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1155. 
Il.t intrans. To transgress; trespass; com- 
mit a fault. 
Al this suffred Ihesu Crist that nevere/or/eted. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Whan ye departe fro me ye shull never forfete to lady ne 
damesell in the londe of kynge Arthur. 
Merlin <$. E. T. S.), iii. 696. 
forfeit (for'fit), a. Forfeited. 
My bond to the Jew is forfeit; and since in paying it 
it is impossible I should live, all debts are cleared be- 
tween you and I. Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. 
By my soul, 
And what it hopes for, if thou attempt his life, 
Thy own is forfeit ! 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, iv. 2. 
By the memory of Edenic joys 
Forfeit and lost. 
Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile. 
forfeit (f6r'fit), n. [< ME. forfet, < AF. forfet, 
OF. forfa.it, < ML. forisfaetum, a transgression, 
fault, also a penalty, fine, neut. pp. of foris- 
facere (> OF. forfaire), transgress, forfeit: see 
forfeit, v.] If. A transgression; a misdeed; 
a crime ; a malicious injury. 
Myn hert, ner I, haue doon you nooforfeyte 
By which ye shulde compleyue in any kynde. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 78. 
Thus thei soiourned xv dayes in the town, that they dide 
noon other forfet on nother side. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 109. 
2. That to which the legal or moral right is 
lost by one's own act or failure to act, as by a 
breach of conditions or by a wrong deed or 
offense ; hence, that which is taken or paid in 
forfeiture; a fine ; a mulct; a penalty: as, he 
who murders pays the forfeit of his life. 
Thy slanders I forgive ; and therewithal 
Remit thy other forfeits. Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 
Your brother is a forfeit of the law, 
And you but waste your words. 
Shak., M. for M., ii. 2. 
Thou hast undone a faithful gentleman, 
By taking forfeit of his land. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night- Walker, iv. 5. 
See nations blotted out from earth to pay 
Tne forfeit of deep guilt. Bryant, The Ages. 
Who breaks law, breaks pact, therefore, helps himself 
To pleasure and profit over and above the due, 
And must pay forfeit pain beyond his share. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 249. 
3. Something deposited and redeemable by a 
forge 
ge schuld now make gow merie, gour mene to glade 
That feynt tlfor-fovim in Md and for-wounded. 
irVw, of I'alrrne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3685. 
I'm but like &forfouijhm hound, 
Has been fighting in a dirty syke. 
IliMe Noble (Child's Ballads, VI. 104). 
And tho' forfoughten sair eneugh, 
Yet unco proud to learn. 
Burns, To the Guidwife of Wauchope. 
for-gabt. ' t. [ME. forgabben; <for-i + gab 1 .] 
To mock ; gibe. 
Whoso for-gabbed a frere y-founden at the stues, 
And brougte Mod of his bodi on bak or on side, 
Hym were as god greuen a greit lorde of rentes. 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 631. 
etc.), forfeit: see foffeit,"v.] 1." The act of for- forgaldedt, a. [Prop.forgalled,<for-i intensive 
feiting; the losing of some moral or legal right + galled.] Very much galled, 
or privilege, as estate, office, effects, honor, or 
credit, through one's own fault. 
To see what maner of clothes there be vnder paineof for- 
feiture of the saide goods. Hakluyt's Voyages, 1. 173. 
His father's care, 
That for the want of issue took him home 
(Though with the forfeiture of his own fame), 
2331 
For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of 
mortmain, and forfeitable like the lands themselves. 
MoeMHM. 
(for'fit-er), n. One who forfeits ; one 
rs a penalty. 
Furftiten you cast in prison. Shak., Cymbeliiie, iii. 2. 
forfeitmentt (for'fit-ment), n. [< forfeit + 
-incut.] Same as forfeiture. 
Then many a Lollard would in forfeitntent 
Bear paper-faggots o'er the pavement. 
Bp. Uall, Satires, II. i. 17. 
Ail<li*,,n, Advice in Love. f or f e iture (for'fi-tur), . [< WE., forfeture, < OF. 
But sure that horse which tyreth like a roile, 
And lothes the griefe of hinforgalded sides, 
Is better much than is the harbrainde colte. 
Gascoigne, Philomene (ed. Arber), p. 117. 
An obsolete preterit otfor- 
forgatt (f6r-gaf). 
get. 
Win iSok unto his safety. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, forgather (f6r-gaTH'er) v.i. [Orig. So. ; also, 
improp., foregather; < for- 1 + gather.] 1. To 
meet; convene. 
The sev'n trades there 
Forgather'd for their siller gun 
To shoot ance mair. 
Mayne, Siller Gun, p. 9. 
Dickens, Carlyle, and myself foregathered with the ad- 
mirable Emerson. J. Forster, Dickens, II. 476. 
Fine ladies rubbed shoulders with actresses, magistrates 
foregathered with jockeys and sharpers. 
J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 7. 
2. To become intimately acquainted (with); 
take up (with). 
O, may thou ne'er forgather up 
Wi' ony blastit, muirland tup. 
Burns, Death of Poor Mailie. 
literature.] 
Ye entriden not inne, and other men that entriden ge 
hade forfendid. Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), I. 241. 
Heavens forfend! I would not kill thy soul. 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 
forfengt, n. Seeforfangi. 
forferet, v. t. [ME. , only in pp. forfered, terrify, 
alarm (= D. vervaren = MLG. vorveren, LG. ver- 
veeren, verviren = MHG. veryceren = ODan. for- 
f<ere, D&n.forfasrde = Sw./or/ara), <for- inten- 
sive + feren, terrify, cause to fear: see/or- 1 and 
fear 1 , v. t.] To subject to great fear; terrify. 
He spered his yate, and in he ran 
Forfered of that wode man. 
Ywaine and Gawin, 1. 1677 (Ritson's Metr. Rom., I.). 
Tyl that myn hert, . . . 
Forfered of his deth, . . . Graunted him love. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 519. 
forfex (for'feks), re. ; pi. forfices (-fi-sez). [L., 
a pair of shears or scissors.] A pair of scissors. 
The peer now spreads the glitt'ring/or/ea: wide, 
T' inclose the lock ; now joins it, to divide. 
Pope, R. of the L., iii. 147. 
forflcate (f6r'fi-kat), a. [< i,. forfex (forfic-), 
scissors, + -ate 1 .] Deeply forked ; very furcate 
or much furcated : said of the tail of a bird, 
for instance, when the depth of the fork equals 
or exceeds the length of the shortest feather. 
See cut under frigate-bird. 
forfication (for-fi'-ka'shon), n. [< forficate + 
-ion.] The state of being forficate ; a deep fork- 
ing or furcation : as, the forfication of the tail 
is three inches deep. 
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shaped, or devised ; a workshop. 
But now behold, 
In the quick forge and working-house of thought, 
How London doth pour out her citizens ! 
SAafr.,Hen. V., v. (cho.). 
It was a practice of impiety, 
Out of your wicked forge, I know it now. 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iv. 1. 
Specifically 2. An open fireplace or furnace, 
fitted with a bellows or some other appliance for 
obtaining a blast to urge the fire, and serving to 
heat metal in order that it may be hammered into 
form. Forges are of many shapes and sizes, ranging from 
small hand-furnaces heated with gas, for jewelers' use, to 
the largest furnaces for heating heavy forgings to be treat- 
ed with a steam-hammer. They are sometimes portable, 
or mounted on wheels to be moved from place to place, as 
in the battery-forge. Military forges include an anvil and 
other appliances. 
I know vnder the grene the serpent how he lurkes ; 
The hammer of the restlesse/ori/e I wote eke how it workes. 
Surrey, Fickle Affections. 
Soon as he bade them blow, the bellows turn'd 
Their iron mouths ; ... at once the blast expires, 
And twenty forges catch at once the fires. 
Pope, Iliad, xviii. 
Children coming home from school 
Look in at the open door ; 
They love to see the flaming forge, 
And hear the bellows roar. 
Longfellow, Village Blacksmith. 
3. A smithy or works where forging is done. 
Joe . . . passed into the forge. One of the soldiers 
opened its wooden windows, another lighted the fire. 
Dickens, Great Expectations, v. 
4. Any large iron-working shop. 5f. The act 
of beating or working iron or steel ; the manu- 
as forfeited by doing or omitting to do some- ~(7 or * c .") scissors.] "The typical genus of ear- 
thing are redeemable by some sportive fine or ^ ' of " the famil Forfieulidce. F. auricularis 
penalty imposed by the judge. ig he bes t-known species. 
Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the forficulate (fr-fik'u-lat), a. [< L. forficula, 
da y- Goldsmith, Vicar, n. dim _ o ^f or f ex (forfic-), scissors, + -ate 1 .] For- 
A pleasant game, she thought ; she liked it more flcate . f uroate . as the forficulate palpi of cer- 
Than magic music, forfeits, all the rest. " . . * * 
Tennyson, Princess, Prol. tam scorpions. 
Forfeits in a barber's shop, according to Halliwell, ForflcuUdae (for-fi-ku'li-de), n.pl [NL., < For- 
ficula + -idee.] A family of orthopterous in- 
sects, the earwigs, alone constituting the sub- 
order Euplexoptera. See Euplexoptera, Der- 
maptera, and cut under earwig. 
Forficulina (fr-fik-u-li'na), n. pi. Same as 
Forficulida". 
forfbughten (fpr-fa'tn), a. [< ME. forfougten, 
penalties for handling the razors, etc., still existing in 
some villages, and more necessary in Shakspere's time, 
when the barber was also a surgeon. 
Laws for all faults, 
But faults so countenanc'd, that the strong statutes 
Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, 
As much in mock as mark. Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 
= Syn. 2. See list under forfeiture. 
forfeitable (f6r'fi-ta-bl), a. [< forfeit + -able.] 
Liable to be forfeited ; subject to forfeiture. 
And thath that ysforfe.tabell, to forfete hitt. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 336. 
forfouten, forfohten, pp. of an unused verb "for- 
fihtm. (.for- + fihten, etc., fight: see for- 1 and 
fight.] Exhausted with fighting or labor; fa- 
tigued and breathless. [Old Eng. and Scotch.] 
An horse of brasse thei lette do forge, 
Of suche entaile, and of suche & forge, 
That in this world was neuer man 
That suche an other worke began. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., i. 
In the greater bodies the forge was easy. Bacon. 
6. A sort of hearth or furnace in which malle- 
able iron is made directly from the ore, by the 
so-called " direct process." For carrying on this 
process successfully the ore must be rich and fusible, and 
charcoal (the only fuel employed) be obtainable at a mod- 
erate price. Various modifications of the forge were, and 
some of them still are, in use to a limited extent under 
the names of "Catalan," "Biscayan," and "Navarrese" 
forges. This process is also in use in America on Lake 
Champlain, and in the Lake Superior iron regions. The 
forge there employed does not differ much from the Cata- 
lan. Establishments of this kind are frequently called 
" bloomeries." See blwnnery, and Catalan furnace, under 
furnace. Traveling forge (milit.), a portable forge ac- 
companying a company of cavalry or a battery of artillery. 
See def. 2. 
