forge 
forge 1 (forj), v. ; pret. and pp. forged, ppr.forg- 
ing. [< ME./0r</e, forge (metals), form, devise, 
make falsely, < OF. forgier, forger, F. foryer = 
Pi.fargar = Sp. Pg. forjiir, < L. fuliriciiri.fuhri- 
care, make (out of wood, stone, metal, etc.), 
frame, construct, < fabrica, a workshop, also a 
fabric, structure, etc.: seeforge^, n., audftibri- 
i-iitr.] I. trims. 1. To form by heating in a 
forge and hammering ; beat into some particu- 
lar shape, as a mass of metal. 
Fill brighter was the shynyng of hir hewe 
Than in the Tour the noble yforged newe. 
Chaucer, Millers Tale, 1. 70. 
But the same set of tools, perhaps, suffice to the plough- 
maker tot forging a hundred ploughs, which serve during 
the twelve years of their existence to prepare the soil of so 
many different farms. J. S. Mill. 
2. To form or shape out in any way ; make by 
any means; invent. 
Put nat the wyte of this tale upon me, 
That I forged it upon my hed. 
Lydgate, Minor Poems, p. 32. 
A thousand pound of wsixfourged and made she, 
As for the morn to don the obseque, 
At sodayu warnyng had thay such huge light. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2336. 
Fe&rforgeth sounds in my deluded ears. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 6. 
He forged . . . boyish histories 
Of battle, bold adventure, dungeon, wreck. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
3. To fabricate by false imitation ; specifically, 
in law, to make a false instrument (including 
every alteration of or addition to a true instru- 
ment) in similitude of an instrument by which 
one person could be obligated to another, with 
criminal intent, for the purpose of fraud and 
deceit : as, to forge coin ; to forge a writing. 
See forgery, and compare counterfeit, )., 2. 
We are contented with the miracles which the Apostles 
wrought without forging or believing new ones. 
Stillingjleet, Sermons, I. ix. 
A letter forged .' Saint Jude to speed ! 
Did ever knight so foul a deed ? 
Scott, Marmion, vi. 15. 
= Syn. 1. To hammer out. 2. To fabricate, frame, man- 
ufacture, coin. 
II. intrans. To commit forgery. 
forge 2 (forj), v. ; pret. and pp. forged, ppr. forg- 
ing. [Origin not clear; perhaps a naut. cor- 
ruption of forced (first as v. t.f); cf. E. dial. 
carcaje for carcass, dispoge, dispoje, for dispose.'] 
1. intrans. To move ahead slowly, with diffi- 
culty, or by mere momentum : said properly of 
a vessel, but also of other things: commonly 
with aliead. See ahead. 
And off she [the ship] forged without a shock. 
De Quincey. 
New communities which forge ahead and prosper. 
Westminster Ren., CXXVIII. 567. 
II. trans. Naut., to force or impel forward : 
usually with off, on, over, etc. : as, to forge a 
ship over a shoal. 
forgeability (for-ja-bil'i-ti), n. [<forgeable : see 
-Mlity.] Capability of being forged. 
The greater the proportion the free iron bears to the 
sum of these compounds, the greater the forgeability and 
weldability of the metal. Ure, Diet., IV. 55-2. 
forgeable (for'ja-bl), a. [< forgel + -a&fc.] 
Capable of being forged, in any sense of the 
word. 
Forgers treteu forgeable thingis. 
Wyclif, Pret. to Epistles (ed. Forshall and Madden), vi. 
Steel is very malleable and forgeaUe when heated. 
W. H. Greenwood, Steel and Iron, p. 387. 
forgedlyt, adv. With artifice ; deceitfully. 
Her adversaries might easily get the cyphers which she 
had made use of to others, and with the same write many 
things forgedly and falsely. Camden, Elizabeth, an. 1686. 
Both falsely and forgedly to deceiue me. 
Li/ly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 91. 
forgemaster (f6rj'mas"ter), n. The owner or 
superintendent of a forge or iron-works. 
The first forgemaster was Governor Lewis Morris. 
The Engineer, LXVI. 281. 
forger (for'jer), n. [< ME. forgere, < OF. for- 
giere (also forgeur, F.forgeur), < forger, forge: 
see forge 1 , v."] 1. One who forges, forms, or 
makes ; specifically, a smith ; a wright. 
God, that is forgere of alle thinges. 
Wyclif, Eccl. xi. 5 (O.\f.). 
Ye are forgers of lies. Job xiii. 4. 
We have found, in agreement with Transcendentalism, 
that the experiencing subject must be the sentient agent, 
the thinker, and therewith itself the veritable forger of 
the momentarily lapsing particulars of thought. 
Mind, IX. 359. 
2. One who makes something by false imita- 
tion; a falsifier; specifically, one who makes 
or issues a counterfeit document; a person 
guilty of forgery. 
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Mark them with characters and brands 
Like oihar/orpftn of men s Imnds. 
S. Bittlfi; Satire upon Plagiaries. 
forge-roll (forj'rol), n. One of the train of 
rolls by which a slab or bloom of metal is con- 
verted into puddled bars. 
forgery (for'jer-i), n. ; pi. forgeries (-iz). [< F. 
fiii-gerie; as forge 1 + -ery.~\ If. The act of 
forging or working metal into shape. 
Useless the forgery 
Of brazen shield and spear. Milton, S. A., 1. 131. 
2f. Invention ; devising. 
They ran well on horseback, but this gallant 
Had witchcraft in 't ; . . . 
... I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, 
Come short of what he did. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7. 
3. The act of fabricating or producing falsely ; 
the making of a thing in imitation of another 
thing, as a legal document, commercial paper 
or coin, a literary production, a work of art, a 
natural object, etc., with a view to deceive, mis- 
lead, or defraud ; specifically, the act of fraudu- 
lently making, counterfeiting, or altering any 
record, instrument, register, note, or the like, to 
the prejudice of the right of another : as, the for- 
gery of a Check or a bond. In criminal law it de- 
notes (at common law) a false making of any instrument 
by which one person can become obligated to another (in- 
cluding every alteration of or addition to a true instru- 
ment), with criminal intent, for purposes of fraud and de- 
ceit; the making or altering a writing so as to make the 
alteration or the writing purport to be the act of some 
person whose act it is not; the false making of an instru- 
ment which purports to be that which it is not, as distin- 
guished from an instrument which purports to l>e what it 
really is, but contains false statements. The definition is 
much enlarged by various statutes in different Jurisdic- 
tions, under which many acts not originally forgery are 
punishable as such. See counterfeit, n., 2. 
In war he practised the same art that he had seen so 
successful to M in ius, of raising a kind of enthusiasm and 
contempt of danger in his army by the forgery of auspices 
and divine admonitions. C. Middleton, Cicero, 1. 1 i. 
Forgery may with us be denned (at common law) to be 
tin- fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the 
prejudice of another man's right." 
Blackstone, Com., IV. xvii. 
4. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely or 
fraudulently devised, or counterfeited ; any in- 
strument which fraudulently purports to be 
that which it is not. 
These are but forgeries, 
But toyes, but tales, but dreams, deceipts, and lies. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were 
a forgery of the second century. 
Waterland, Works, VIII. 6. 
forge-scale (forj'skal), . The coating of oxid 
which forms on iron heated to redness, or to a 
still higher temperature, as in forging bar-iron, 
and which may be detached from the metal by 
bending or hammering. Also called iron-scale 
and hammer-scale. 
forget (fdr-gef), i'. t.; pret. forgot (forgot, 
obs.), pp. forgotten, forgot, ppr. forgetting. [< 
ME. forgeten, forgiten, forgeten, forgiten (pret. 
forgat, forgat, foryat, pp. forgeten, forgeten, 
foryeten, forgute, forgote), < AS. forgitan, for- 
gietan, forgytan (pret. forgeat, pi. forgedton, 
forgmton, forgeton, pp. forgiten, forgeten) (= 
OS.fargetan = D. vergeten = MLG. vorgeten = 
OHG. firgezzan, MHG. vergezzen, G. rergessen 
= ODan. forgcede, forgcette = Sw.forgata; cf. 
equiv. OFries. tirjeta, forjeta = OHG. irgezzen, 
MHG. ergetzen), forget, </or- priv. + gitan, ge- 
tan, get: see /or- 1 and gefi.~) 1. To lose, tem- 
porarily or permanently, the power of recall- 
ing to consciousness (something once known or 
thought of) ; permit to pass, for a time or for 
ever, from the mind; cease or fail to remember. 
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but for- 
gat him. Gen. xl. 23. 
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. 
Ps. ciii. 2. 
Here the matter is treated lightly, as exciting no atten- 
tion ; or passed, as never to he known, or, if known, only 
to be forgot. Sir W. Hamilton. 
The genius of Sallust is still with us. But the Numidi- 
ans whom he plundered . . . are forgotten. 
Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 
The after- world forgets my name, 
Nor do I wish it known. 
M. Arnold, Obermann Once More. 
2. Figuratively, to overlook or neglect in any 
way ; fail to take thought of ; lose care for. 
forget-me-not 
To forget one's self, to lose one's dignity or self-con- 
trol, and say or do something unbecoming in or unworthy 
of one. 
Urge me no more, I shall forget mynetf. 
Shak., 3. C., iv. 3. 
But I am heated, 
And Aoforgft this presence and myself: 
Your pardon, lady. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, ii. 1. 
forgetable, forgettable (for-get'a-bl), a. [< 
forget + -able.'] That may be forgotten ; easily 
escaping the memory. 
Into the limbo of forgetable and forgotten things. 
The Century, XXV. 273. 
forgetableness, forgettableness (for-get'a-bl- 
nes), n. The quality of being forgetable. " 
Mr. - 's a priori argument as to the forgetablerttft of 
tht- non-coincidental experiences of the same kind comes 
to nothing. Amer. Soc. Psych. Research, I. 177. 
forgetelt, a. [ME., also forgetil, forgetel, for- 
yctel; < A.S.forgitel,forgytel,forgytol, forgetful, 
< forgitan, forgytan, forget: see forget.] Dis- 
posed to forget ; forgetful. 
forgetful (fqr-get'ful), a. [< ME. forgetful, 
forgetful, an irreg. formation (with-/2 for ear- 
lier -el), substituted for earlier forgetel, q. v.] 
1. Disposed or apt to forget; easily losing the 
power of recalling past experience or know- 
ledge to mind. 
Not maad & forgetful herer, but a doer of werk. 
lif, J". i- 25. 
Can a woman forget her sucking child? . . . Yea, they 
may forget, yet will I not, forget thee. Isa. xlix. 15. 
The terrour of such new and resolute opposition made 
them forget thir wonted valour. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
The greater part of the walls, towers, and gates of Sa- 
lona, not forgetting a gate which has been made out in 
the long walls themselves, all belong to one general style 
of masonry. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 166. 
Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so : 
I put it in the pocket of my gown. . . . 
Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful. 
Shak., J. C., iv. 3. 
2. Heedless ; careless ; neglectful ; inattentive. 
In plenty and fulness it may be we are of God more for- 
getful than were requisite. Hooter, Eccles. Polity, vil. 24. 
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2. 
3. Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; ob- 
livious. 
Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench 
Of that forgetful lake benumm not still. 
Milton, P. L, ii. 74. 
And Love would answer with a sigh, 
"The sound of that/orpe//u( shore [death] 
Will change my sweetness more and more, 
Half-dead to know that I shall die." 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxv. 
forgetfully (for-get'ful-i), adv. In a forgetful 
manner. 
But since it is our duty not to violate the memory of 
our oppressors, but silently, thankfully, and forgetfully 
to accept the oppression, we will commemorate only the 
king's restitution. South, Works, VIII. xiv. 
forgetfulness (fQr-get'ful-nes), n . [< ME. for- 
getfulnesse, foryetefulnesse, etc.; < forgetful + 
-new.] 1. The character or state of being for- 
getful ; proneness to let past experience and 
knowledge slip from the mind. 
Not in entire forgetfulness, 
And not in utter nakedness, 
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come 
From God, who is our home. 
Wordsicorth, Immortality, v. 
2. The state of having passed from remem- 
brance or recollection; the fact of having 
ceased to be remembered ; oblivion. 
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, 
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 
Oray, Elegy, st. 22. 
If the noble is often crushed suddenly by the ignoble, 
one forgetfulness travels after both. 
De Quincey, Secret Societies, i. 
3. Neglect ; negligence ; careless omission ; in- 
attention. 
Trouthe alsoo [love hath] put in foryetefulnesse whanne 
thei soo sore begynne to sighe asscaunce. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 74. 
The Church of England is grievously charged with for- 
getfulness of her duty. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
= Sy n . 1. Obliinousness, etc. See oblivion. 
forgetivet (for'je-tiv), a. [Irreg. < forge* + 
-Wte.] Capable of forging or producing ; in- 
ventive. 
A good sherris-sack . . . makes it [tin- brain] apprehen- 
sive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable 
shapes. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., IT. 3. 
forget-me-not (f6r-get'me-not), n. If. The 
ground-pine, Ajuga Chamcepitys : the earliest 
use of the word, in the old English herbalists. 
2. Myosotis palustris, a boraginaceous plant 
of Europe, growing in damp or wet places, and 
naturalized in some parts of the United States. 
It has circiiiate racemes of sky-blue flowers with a yellow 
center. (See cut under circinate.) As the emblem of 
friendship, it bears a name corresponding in sense to the 
English name in nearly every language in Europe; but it 
was not so called in England and France till the early part 
of the nineteenth century. Some other similar species of 
Myosotis&re frequently cultivated under this name, espe- 
fiully M. diitn'tijtora and the dwarf M. alpestris. 
