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3 Burr. 1702. Indictments for forcible entry nm(l fet 
forth, that the entry was mqnu forti, to didinguidt this of¬ 
fence front other trefpafl’es vi et artnis ; and there are many 
niceties to be obferved in drawing the indictment, other- 
wife it will be quafhed. Dalt. 298. There mud: be cer¬ 
tainty in this indictment ; and no repugnancy, which is 
an incurable fault. An indictment of forcible entry was 
quafhed, for that it did not fet forth the edate of the 
party : fo where the defendant hath not been in poffeffion 
peaceably three years before the indictment, without 
laying before the indictment found, See. And force final 1 
not be intended when the judgment is generally laid, for 
it mud be always expreded, 1 Nelf. Abr. 867. The jof¬ 
fice may make reditution (after inquifition found) to the 
party ottfted, by himfelf, or by his precept to the flieriff. 
T. llaym. S5. So reditution fhall be made upon an in¬ 
dictment at the quarter-fedions. Hale's P. C. 140. 
No other judices of peace but thofe before whom the 
indictment was found, may either at fedions, or out of it, 
award reditution ; the fame judices may do it in perfon, 
or make a precept to the flterid' to do it, who may raife 
the power cf the county to afiid him in executing the fame, 
1 Hawk. P. C. c. 64. And the fame judices of peace may 
alfo fuperfede the reditution, before it is executed ; on 
infufticiency found in the indictment, &c. A conviction 
for forcible entry, before a fine is fet, may be quafhed on 
motion ; but after a fine is fet, it may not; the defendant 
mud bring writ of error. 2 Salk. 450. Though forcible 
entry is punidiable either by indictment or action ; the 
aCtion is feldom brought, but the indictment often. But 
in many cafes it may be much more for the benefit of the 
party to bring the aCtion. If a forcible entry or detainer 
fhall be made by three perfons or more, it is alfo a riot, 
and may be proceeded againd as fuch, if no inquiry hath 
before been made of the force. Dalt. c. 44. 
FOR'CIBLENESS, f. Force; violence. 
FOR'CIBLY, adv. Strongly; powerfully.—The gof- 
pel offers fuch confiderations as are fit to work very ford, 
bly upon two of the mod fwaying and governing pallions 
in the mind, our hopes and our fears. Tillotfon. —Impe- 
tuoufiy; with great drength. By violence; by force.— 
This doCtrine brings us down to the level of horfe and 
mule, whofe mouths are forcibly holden with bit and bri¬ 
dle. Hammond. 
Fie himfelf with greedy great defire 
Into the caftle enter’d forcibly. Spencer. 
FOR'CING,yi in horticulture, the art of producing 
ripe fruits before their natural time, by means of glafs 
frames and doves. See Horticulture. 
FOR'ClPATED, adj. Formed like a pair of pincers 
to open and ir.clofe.—The locuds have antennae or long 
horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail be¬ 
hind. Brown. 
FORD, f. [pop.b, Sax. from pap.an, to pafs.] A 
fliallow part of a river where it may be paffed without 
fwimming : 
Her men the paths rode through made by her fword ; 
They pafs the dream, when die had found the ford. Fair/. 
It fometimes (ignifies the dream, the current, without 
any conlideration of paffage or lhallownefs: 
Medufa with GorgOnian terror guards 
The ford, and of itfelf the water flies 
All fade of living wight. Milton. 
Rife, wretched widow i rife; nor undeplor’d 
Permit my ghod to pafs the Stygian ford. Dryden. 
To FORD, v a. To pafs without fwimming..—Adam’s 
fbin-bones mud have contained a thoufand fathom, and 
much more, if he had forded the ocean. Raleigh. 
FORD, a town of the American States, in South Ca¬ 
rolina : fix miles north-north-wed of George-town. 
FOR'DA,/. [Latin.] A cow with a calf, a milch cow. 
FOR 
Phillips. In old records, a ford, a diallow made by dam- 
ming up the water above it. 
FORD'ABLE, adj. Padable without fwimming.—. 
Pliny placeth the Schenitas upon the Euphrates, where 
the fame beginnerh to be fordable. Raleigh. 
FORD'A B LENESS,yi the date of being fordable. Scott. 
FORDERGERS'DORF, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzgebirg : nine 
miles ead-north-ead of Freyberg. 
FORDIC ID'I A,y. [ for da, Lat. a cow with a calf, and 
credo, to flay.] In Roman antiquity, a fedival celebrated 
by the Romans in honour of the goddefs Tellus. 
FOR'Di K A, f. Grafs that grows on the edges of dikes 
and ditches. 
FORDINGBRID'GE, a neat and pleafant town oF 
Hampfhire, dtuated on the borders of the New Fored, 
and on the banks of the river Avon ; didant from Salif- 
bury twelve miles ; from Cranbourn in Dorfetfliire, fix; 
from Ringwood, fix; and from London, ninety-two miles. 
The chief manufactory is ticking, for which it is in high 
repute; nearly five hundred looms being condantly em¬ 
ployed in the manufacture of that article. There is alfo 
a confiderable trade carried on in the calico-printing. On 
account of its manufactories, it is very populous ; and 
but few inland towns of- its fize excel it in point of trade. 
It was once much larger, having often differed by fire. 
The market is on Fridays; fair, annually on the 9th of 
September, for toys, Sec. At the fouth-ead entrance of 
the town, over the river Avon, is a capital done bridge 
of feven arches. This river adds very greatly to the 
fruitfulnefs of the vale, which confidsof rich water-mea¬ 
dows of prodigious extent; the furrounding hills on each 
fide are lined with fine timber, intercepted with gentle¬ 
men’s feats, which, together with the dry and tawny 
heath, form a mod beautiful profped in every feafon of 
the year. 
FORDINGIA'NO, a town of the ifland of Sardinia : 
twenty-two miles fouth-ead of Bofa. 
FOR'DOL, /. [from Sax. pojae, before, and boele, a 
part or portion.] A butt or head-land, diooting upon 
other bounds. 
FORDON'NE, /. [from the participle of fordo , fome- 
tiines written Foredo.] Dedruftion : 
The fecond was to Triamond behighf, 
For that he fav’d the viCtour from fordonne. Spencer. 
FORD'SAND, a fmall ifland of Denmark, near the 
coad of Slefwick, in the German Ocean. Lat. 55. 1, N. 
Ion. 8. 35,* E. Greenwich. 
FORDOU'N (John), the earlied writer of Scottidi hif- 
tory, flouridied in the reign of Alexander III. towards 
the end of the thirteenth century. Of his life very little 
is known, though there was not a monadery that poffeffed 
not copies of his work. The firft dve books of the hif- 
tory which bears his name, were the only parts written 
by him : the red were added by different perfons. A 
manufcrjpt in vellum of this hidorian is in the library of 
the univerfity of Edinburgh. 
FORD'WICFI, an ancient town in the county of Kent; 
which, though it has now only tire appearance of a mean 
village, is incorporated by the name of The mayor, jurats, 
and commonalty, of the town of Fordwich. It is a mem¬ 
ber of the port of Sandwich, and enjoys the fame privi¬ 
lege as the cinque ports. It is dtuate on the Stour, which 
is navigable for fmall velfels to the town ; though there 
is reafon to think the fea was once much nearer; and very 
probably the Portus Trutulenfis was that part of this 
large haven where the Stour entered it, and derives its 
name from thofe excellent trouts, for which this place 
dill continues famous. 
FOR'DYCE (David), a learned Scotch profedbr of 
philofophy, born at Aberdeen in 1711. He received the 
early part of his claffical education at the public grammar- 
