FOR 
though the doors he open, this is a forcible 
entry punishable by the law. 
And an indictment will lie at common law 
for a forcible entry, though generally 
brought on the several statutes against for- 
cibly entry. The punishment for this of- 
fence is by fine and imprisonment. 
Forcible marriage, if any person shall 
take away any woman having lands or 
goods, or that is heir apparent to her an- 
cestors, by force and against her will, and 
afterwards she be married to him, or to 
another by liis 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 matrimony with 
her without the consent of her parent or 
guardian, he shall be imprisoned five years, 
or fined in like manner. 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 before 
their usual time. This is done by plant- 
ing 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 seasons, to admit the be- 
nefit 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 terminat- 
ed both before and behind in vessels of war 
by a breast work, the foremost part form- 
ing the top of the beak-head, and the hind 
part reaching to the after part of the fore 
chains. Forecastle men, are sailors station- 
ed there, and are of the best kind as to ex- 
perience and discipline. 
Fore foot, 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 into a 
FOR 
sort of knee, is attached to the lower end 
of the stem ; it is also called a gripe. 
Fore foot, in the sea-language, signifies 
one ship’s lying, or sailing, across another’s 
way : as if two ship’s being under sail, and 
in ken one of 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 windward ship will run a head 
of the other : then it is said, such a ship 
lies with other’s fore foot. 
Foreign seamen serving two years on 
board British ships, whether of war, trade, 
or privateers, during the time of war, shall 
be deemed natural born subjects. 
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 counterscarp, mount 
the breach, or the like. They are so call- 
ed from the great danger they are unavoid- 
ably exposed to ; but the word is old, and 
begins to be obsolete. 
FOREMAST of a ship, a large, round 
piece of timber, placed in her fore-part, 
or forecastle, and carrying the fore-sail 
and fore-top-sail yards. Its length is 
usually | of the main-mast. And the fore- 
top-gallant-mast is i 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 fore reach upon another, when 
both sailing together, one sails better, or 
outgoeth the other. 
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 there- 
of; here he does in presumption of law 
disavow or forsake all the rights he has 
thereto, for which reason those lands shall 
be called foreschoke. 
FORESKIN, in anatomy, the same with 
prepuce. See Prepuce. 
FORE staff, or cross-staff, an instrument 
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 
