forlorn 
I'd rather lie 
A I'uuiin suckled in a creed outwm n ; 
Si i might 1, standing on this pleasant lea, 
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn. 
Wordsworth, Sonnets, xxxiii. 
The condition of the besieged in the mean time was./i.i - 
lurn in the extreme. Present'. 
3. Small; despicable: in a ludicrous sense. 
He was so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick 
si-lit were invincible. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., lit. 2. 
4. Deprived; bereft; destitute. 
Art thou of thy loved lasse/orforn; 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., April. 
There ne'er was man in Scotland born, 
Ordain'd to be so much/oriorii. 
Leesome Brand (Child's Ballads, II. 346). 
He went like one that hath been stunned, 
And is of sense forlorn. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, vii. 
Forlorn boyst. [Tr. of F. enfants perdus; D. verloren 
kiinl,'mt.\ Same as forlorn hope. Forlorn hope. [D. 
mrloren hoop, lit. a lost troop (D. hoop, a troop, = E. heap), 
but associated in E. with hope^, expectation.] A detach- 
ment of men appointed to lead in an assault, to storm a 
counterscarp, enter a breach, or perform other service at- 
tended with uncommon peril. 
A confused rabble and medley of all sorts of nations, 
who at the forlorn hope . , . might, if they did no other 
good, yet with receiving many a wound in their bodies, 
dull and turn the edge of the enemy's sword. 
Holland, tr. of Llvy, p. 765. 
= Syn. Friendless, miserable, comfortless, disconsolate, 
woebegone, abject, pitiable. 
II. n. 1. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person. 
That Henry, sole possessor of my love, 
Is, of a king, become a banish'd man, 
And forc'd to live in Scotland A forlorn. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ill. 3. 
2t. A forlorn hope ; an advanced body of troops; 
a vanguard. 
The squadron nearest to your eye 
Is his Forlorn of infantry ; 
Bowmen of unrelenting minds. 
Cotton (Arbor's Eng. Garner, I. 219). 
Owe forlorn of horse marched within a mile of where the 
enemy was drawn up. Cromwell. 
forlornly (f6r-16rn'li), adv. In a forlorn, for- 
saken, or wretched manner. 
And poor, proud Byron, sad as grave, 
And salt as life ; forlornly brave, 
And quiv'ring with the dart he drave. 
Mrs. Browning, Vision of Poets. 
forlornness (for-lorn'nes), n. [< ME. forlor- 
nesse, forlorennesse, < AS. forlorenes, for *for- 
lorennes (= OHGr. farloranissa, MHO. verlore- 
nusse),<.forloren,losi: see/oriorn.] The state 
of being forlorn ; destitution ; misery ; a for- 
saken or wretched condition. 
forloynet, . t. [ME. forloynen, delay, divert, 
abandon, < OF. forlogner, forlongier, forloin- 
gnier, etc., eloin, leave far behind, delay, etc., 
< L. foris, out, outside, + longus, long: see 
long, and cf. eloin, purloin, etc.] To delay ; di- 
vert; abandon. 
forloynet, n. [ME. forloyne, forleygne, < OF. 
"forionge, very far off (a term of hunting)" 
(Cotgrave). Cf. forloyne, u.] In hunting. See 
the extract. 
Forloyne. In hunting, a chase in which some of the 
hounds have tailed, and the huntsman is ahead of some, 
and following others. It may also be explained, when a 
hound, going before the rest of the cry, meets chase, and 
goes away with it. See Twici, p. 16; Gent. Rec., ii. 79. 
HaUiwell. 
Therwith the hunte, wonder faste, 
Blew & forleygne at the laste. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 386. 
forlyet, t- Seeforlie. 
form (f&rm), n. [Early mod. E. also fourm, 
fourme ; < ME. forme, foorme, fourme, furme, 
shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, con- 
dition, agreement, etc., < OF. forme, fourme, 
furme, F. forme = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. forma = D. 
vorm = MHO. forme, Gr. form = Icel. formr = 
Dan. Sw.form, < L. forma, shape, figure, image, 
outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, 
sort, kind, etc., ML. also a bench, choir-stall, 
grade in a school, etc. (with many other mean- 
ings). There is no ground for the attempted 
distinction, in pronunciation and spelling, be- 
tween/orm, shape, etc., and/orwz (spelled/owrw 
in Bailey), a bench, etc.] 1. The external shape 
or configuration of a body ; the figure, as de- 
fined by lines and surfaces ; external appearance 
considered independently of color or material ; 
in an absolute use, the human figure: as, it 
was in the/on of a circle; a triangular form; 
the form of the head or of the body ; a beauti- 
ful or an ugly form. 
And the earth was without form, and void. Gen. i. 2. 
After that he appeared in another form unto two of 
them as they walked. Murk xvi. 12. 
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Each/orm in the moonlight dim, 
Of rock or of tree, is seen of bin. 
H'/u'tlifi; Mogg Megone, i. 
At Beni Hassan, during the time of the 12th dynasty, 
curviline;ir/orm,v reappear in the roofs. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. '204. 
The apparent permanence in the case of the rock or 
tree is a temporarily abiding/onn or temporarily abiding 
spacial relations. Amer. Jour. Psychol., 1. 62ti. 
2. Specifically, in crystal., the complex of 
planes included under the same general sym- 
bol. Thus in the isometric system the most general form 
is the hexoctahedron, embracing forty-eight similar planes. 
In the triclinicsystem aforni, even in the mostgeneral case, 
includesonly two similar planes, and is called an openform, 
since it does not represent an inclosed solid or closed form; 
similarly, the two basal planes in the orthorhombic system 
constitute a form. 
3. Attractive appearance ; shapeliness ; beauty. 
[Archaic.] 
He hath no form nor comeliness. Isa. liii. 2. 
4f. A costume ; a special dress : as, a blue silk 
form. 
There comes out of the chayre-roome Mrs. Stewart in a 
most lovely form, with her hair all about her eares, hav- 
ing her picture taking there. Pepys, Diary, II. 148. 
5. A mold, pattern, or model ; something to give 
shape, or on or after which things are fash- 
ioned: as, a hatters' or a milliners' form; a 
form for jelly. 6. In printing, an assemblage 
of types secured in a chase for stereotyping, or 
of either types or plates for printing. A form may 
consist of one page or of many pages. For stereotyping, 
no particular order of arrangement is necessary ; for print- 
ing, the pages are arranged in such order that in folding 
the printed sheet they will fall in regular sequence. In 
book-printing, before the general use of steam-presses, 
two forms (see inner and outer form, below) were usually 
required for a sheet, one being separately printed on each 
side; now a single form frequently comprises a whole 
sheet, the paper being turned end for end for printing the 
second side. Large newspapers, however, still require two 
forms. In this sense often spelled forme in Great Britain. 
7. In milit. engin., same as gabion-form. See 
gabion. 8. In general, arrangement of or rela- 
tionship between the parts of anything, as dis- 
tinguished from the parts themselves : opposed 
to matter, but not properly to substance (unless 
it be the intention of the writer to identify sub- 
stance with matter). Thus, to say that the soul was 
immaterial was formerly considered the same as to say that 
it was a. form. With the older writers form is often synony- 
mous with essence, and has generally lofty associations 
(thus, the shape of a living being, considered as its per- 
fection, was called its form, while that of a lifeless thing 
was called its figure, but not its form) ; and these ideas 
cling to the word in the minds of later writers, as Kant. 
But with many modern writers the conception is of some- 
thing imposed upon the thing from without, and distinct 
from Its life and essence. In metaphysics form denotes a 
determination, a specializing element, that constituent of 
a thing by virtue of which it is the kind of thing that it 
is. In the Platonic philosophy the form is the exemplar 
according to which a thing is made, or the mold, as it 
were, in which the thing is cast. In the Aristotelian phi- 
losophy form is the developed actuality, matter the un- 
developed potentiality ; matter is that element by virtue 
of which the thing is, form is that by which it is as it is 
that is, the nature or essence of the thing. In Bacon's 
philosophy the true form is the physical structure or con- 
stitution of anything. In Kant's philosophy form is that 
element of an object which is imported into it by the 
mind : opposed to the matter, which is given in sense. 
For various other metaphysical applications of the term, 
see phrases below. 
The ngure comprehendeth the shape of things that have 
no life, as the facion of the elemente, of trees, of flouddes, 
of an house, a shippe, a cote, and soche like. The/orm 
conteineth the portraiture of al livyng thinges, as the very 
livelie image of man, of an horse, or a lion, as we cal a man 
wel favoured or harde favoured. 
Sir T. Wilson, Rule of Reason (1551). 
Though I shall for brevity's sake retain the word form, 
yet I would be understood to mean by it, not a real sub- 
stance distinct from matter, but only the matter itself of 
a natural body, considered with its peculiar manner of 
existence, which I think may not inconveniently be called 
either its speciflcal or denominating state, or its essential 
mollification ; or, if you would have me express it in one 
word, its stamp. Boyle, Origin of Forms. 
Of a beautiful landscape, melody, or poem, the blend- 
ing of unity with variety appears not only in the group- 
ing of Sense-Elements ("form" in the narrow meaning), 
but also in that of the represented content or signification 
of these. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 536. 
In a phenomenon, I call that which corresponds to the 
sensation its matter ; but that which causes the manifold 
matter of the phenomenon to be perceived as arranged in 
a certain order I call its form. 
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (tr. by Max Miiller), p. 18. 
The distinction above specified is employed by Aristotle 
in his exposition of the soul. The soul belongs to the cat- 
egory of substance or essence (not that of quantity, qual- 
ity, etc.) ; but of the two points of view under which es- 
sence may be presented, the soul ranks with form, not 
with matter with the actual, not with the potential. 
Grote, Aristotle, p. 457. 
Time and space are not given in sensation. They are 
not the sensational matter of perception, but something 
that " makes it possible for us to represent all parts of 
that matter as arranged in certain relations to each other " ; 
and this we may fairly call the/orm of perception. 
E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 234. 
form 
9. A specific formation or arraiifjoinciii ; charac- 
teristic structure, constitution, or appearance; 
disposition of parts or conditions. 
Whan the Duke hcrde that in the same forme he moste 
come a-geyn, he vndirstode wele he sholilc brinue with 
hym Ygerne. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 69. 
To laugh at all things thou shall heare is neither good 
nor fit, 
It shewes the property and forme of one with little wit. 
Bailees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 294. 
Who, being in the/orm of God, . . . took upon him the 
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. 
Phil. ii. 6, 7. 
In the Egyptian females the /orms of womanhood begin 
to develop themselves about the ninth or tenth year. 
E. If. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 40. 
The third or "long"/""" contains the seven [Epistles] 
already enumerated in a more expanded state. 
Quarterly Rev., CLXII. 474. 
10. Mode or manner of being, action, or mani- 
festation; specific state, condition, determina- 
tion, variation, or kind : as, water in the form 
of steam or of ice ; electricity is a form of 
energy; English is a, form of German speech; 
varioloid is a mild form of smallpox; life in all 
its forms. 
This notion of " ought," when once it has been devel- 
oped, is a necessary form of our moral apprehension,_just 
as space is now a necessary form of our sense-perceptions. 
II. Sidgunck, Methods of Ethics, p. 93. 
To many the battle of the giants, over the " long," the 
"middle," and the "short" form or recension of the Ig- 
natian Epistles, will be an intellectual treat, as he watches 
the fence and scholarship of the various disputants. 
Quarterly Rev., CLXII. 474. 
11. Fixed order or method; systematic or or- 
derly arrangement or proceeding, as to either 
generals or particulars ; system or formula : as, 
the/orm* of civilized society; a, form of words 
or of prayer; a rough draft to be reduced to 
form; a document in due form. 
And Exspoundide theim after myn owne wesdone 
After the forme of Experience. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 1. 
Though well we may not pass upon his life 
Without the/orm of justice. Shak., Lear, iii. 7. 
'Gainst form and order they their power employ, 
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 531. 
For who would keep an ancient form 
Thro' which the spirit breathes no more? 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cv. 
I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. 
Emerson, Misc., p. 25. 
12. Specifically, mere manner as opposed to 
intrinsic qualities; style. 
Perhaps we owe the masterpiece of humorous literature 
to the fact that Cervantes had been trained to authorship 
in a school where form predominated over substance. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 126. 
13. Formality, or a formality ; ceremony. 
O place ! form ! 
How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, 
Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls 
To thy false seeming ! Shak., M. for M., ii. 4. 
Should form, my lord, 
Prevail above affection? no, it cannot. 
Ford, Love's Sacrifice, i. 1. 
14. Conformity to the conventionalities and 
usages of society ; propriety : chiefly in the 
phrases good form, bad form. 
We'll eat the Dinner and have a Dance together, or we 
shall transgress all Form. Steele, Tender Husband, v. 1. 
I would see the buxom bride decked in the robe of cul- 
ture, jewelled with the gems of refinement, and adorned 
with the lace-enwoven veil of good form. 
Westminster Rev., CXXVIII. 626. 
15. Mere appearance ; semblance. 
Why keep up a form, of separation when the life of it 
is fled ? Lamb, Imperfect Sympathies. 
16. High condition or fitness for any under- 
taking, as a competition, especially a physical 
competition ; powers of competing. 
In the language of the turf, when we say that a horse is 
inform, we intend to convey to our hearers that he is in 
high condition and fit to mn. So, again, the word is used 
in still another sense ; for we speak of a horse's form when 
we wish to allude to his powers on the turf, as compared 
with other well-known animals. Thus, if it be supposed 
that two three-year-olds, carrying the same weight, would 
rnn a mile and a half, and come in abreast, it is said that 
the form of one is equal to that of the other. 
J. H. Walsh, The Horse, vi. 
17. In alg., a quantic in which the variables 
are considered abstractly with reference only 
to their mathematical relations in the quan- 
tic, and apart from any signification. 18. In 
gram., a word bearing the sign of a distinct 
grammatical character, or denoted by its struc- 
ture as having a particular office. 19. In mu- 
sic: (a) The general theory or science of so 
arranging themes, tonalities, phrases, and sec- 
tions in a piece that order, symmetry, and cor- 
