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James I.—I dine with forks that have but two prongs. 
Swift. 
At Midfummer down with the brambles and brakes 
And after abroad with thy forks and thy rakes. Tujler. 
It is fometimes ufed for the point of an arrow : 
The bow is bent and drawn : make from the (haft. 
—Let it fall rather, though the fork invade 
The region of my heart Shakefpeare. 
A point.—Several are amazed at the wifdom of the an¬ 
cients, that reprefented a thunderbolt with three forks, 
fince nothing could have better explained its triple qua¬ 
lity of piercing, burning, and melting. Addifon. 
To FORK., v. n. To (hoot into blades, as corn does 
out of the ground.—The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer. 
FOR'KED, adj. Opening into two or more parts.— 
Naked he was, for all the world, like a forked radifh, with 
a head fantaftically carved upon it with a knife. Shakefpeare. 
Ye dragons, whofe contagious breath 
Peoples the dark retreats of death, 
Change your fierce hilling into joyful fong, 
And praife your maker with your forked tongue. Hof common m 
FORKED HEAD, a cape on the fouth coaft of the 
illand of Cape Breton. Lat. 45. 42. N. Ion. 60. 4, W. 
Greenwich. 
FOR'KEDLY, adv. In a forked form. 
FOR'KEDNESS, f. The quality of opening into two 
parts or more. 
FORK'HEAD,y. Point of an arrow: 
Tt feizing, no way enter might; 
But back refounding, left the forkhead'kzzn, 
Eftfoon it fled away, and might no where be feen. Spenfer. 
FOR'KY, adj. Forked ; furcated ; opening into two 
parts: 
The fmiling infant in his hand (hall take 
The crefted bafililk and fpeckled fnake ; 
Pleas’d the green luftre of the fcales furvey, 
And with their forky tongue and pointlefs (ting (hall play. 
Pope. 
FORLA'NA,y [Italian.] A flow kind of jig, a dance 
otherwife called ftarella. 
To FORLE'ND, v. a. To refign : 
But Timias, the prince’s gentle fquyre. 
That ladie’s love unto his lord forlent. Spenfer. 
FOR'LER LAND, f Land in the bifliopric of Here¬ 
ford granted or leafed dam cpifcopus in epifcopatu feterit, 10 
as the fucceflor might have the fame for his prefent re¬ 
venue : this cuftom has been long fince difufed, and the 
land thus formerly granted is now let by leafe as other 
lands* though it dill retains the name by which it was an¬ 
ciently known. 
FORLAZ'ZO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Bari : eleven miles fouth-eaft of 
Teramo. 
FOR'LI, a town of Italy, in the (late of the church, 
and province of Romagna; the fee of a bifliop, fuffragan 
of Ravenna : it contains ten churches, and twenty-three 
convents : twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of Ravenna, 
and thirty-eight fouth-eafi of Bologna. 
FORLIMPO'POLI, a town of Italy, in the date of the 
church, and province of Romagna ; formerly a conlider- 
able town, and fee of a bifliop, but ruined, in 1360, by 
the cardinal of Burgundy : four miles eaft of Forli. 
FORLO'RE, [the pret. and part, of the Saxon popileo- 
yten, in Dutch verloren .] Delerted ; forfook; forfaken. 
ObJ'olete : 
Such as Diana by the fandy fliore 
Of fwift Eurotas, or on Cynthus’ green, 
Where all the nymphs have her forlore. Spenfer. 
Thus fell the trees, with noife the deferts roar ; 
The beads their caves, the birds their nefts forelore. Fairfax, 
FORLO'RN, adj. [poplojien, from popleopan, Sax. 
verloren , Dot ] Deferted; deftitute; forfaken; wretch¬ 
ed ; helplefs; folitary.—Philomel laments/or/or/z. Fenton, 
As fome fad turtle his loft love deplores, 
Thus, far from Delia, to the winds I mourn ; 
Alike unheard, unpity’d, and forlorn. Pope. 
Tell me, good Hobinol, what gars thee greet ? 
What ? hath fome wolf thy tender lambs ytorn ? 
Or is thy bagpipe broke, that founds fo fweet ? 
Or art thou of thy loved lafs forlorn.? Spenfer. 
Taken away. This fenfe fliews that it is the participle 
of an active verb, now loft : 
What is become of great Aerates’ fon 1 
Or where hath he hung up his mortal blade, 
That hath fo many haughty conquefts won >. 
Is all his force forlorn , and all his glory done ? Spenfer. 
Small ; defpicable ; in a ludicrous fenfe. —He was fo for¬ 
lorn, tliat his dimenfions to any thick fight were invinci¬ 
ble. Shakefpeare. 
FORLO'RN, f. A left, folitary, forfaken, man : 
Henry 
Is of a king become a banifh’d man, 
And forc’d to live in Scotland a forlorn. Shakefpeare. 
Forlorn hope, the foldiers who are fent firft to the 
attack, and therefore doomed to perifli: 
Critics in plume, 
Who lolling on our foremoft benches fit, 
And (till charge firft, the true forlorn of wit. Dryden. 
FORLORN I'SLAND, an ifland on the eaftern coafi 
of South America, fometimes called Loft ifland, at the 
diftance of a league and a half to the eaft from Boot ifland, 
Thefe iflands are fituated to the north of Cajana or Cay¬ 
enne. The Forlorn ifland is now only a vaft rock, though 
it was formerly a large ifland, of which the greateft part 
is funk into the fea and loft. 
FORLORN'NESS, f. Deftitution ; mifery ; folitude: 
—Men difpleafed God, and confequently forfeited all 
right to happinefs ; even whilft they compleated the for- 
lornnefs of their condition by the lethargy of not being 
fenlible of it. Boyle. 
FORLORN'LY, adv. In a forlorn manner. Scott. 
To FORLY'E, v. n. To lye before : 
Knit with a golden baldric, which forlay 
Athwart her fnowy bread, and did divide 
Her dainty paps, which, like young fruit in May, 
Now little ’gan to fvvell ; and being ty’d 
Through her thin weed, their places only fignifi’d. Spenfer. 
FORM, f. \_forma , Lat. forme, Fr.] The external fi¬ 
gure or appearance of anything; reprefentation ; fliape. 
It flood dill; but I could not dilcern the form thereof. Job. 
Matter, as wife logicians fay, 
Cannot without a form fubfift ; 
And form, fay I as well as they, 
Muft fail, if matter brings no grift. Swift. 
Being, as modified by a particular fliape : 
Here toils and death, and death’s half-brother, deep, 
Forms terrible to view, their (entry keep ; 
With anxious pleafures of a guilty mind, 
Deep frauds before, and open force behind. Dryden. 
Particular model or modification—He that will look into 
many parts of Afia and America will find men reafon there 
perhaps as acutely as himfelf, who yet never heard of a 
fyllogifm, nor can reduce any one argument to thofe 
forms. Locke. —Beauty; elegance of appearance.—He hath 
no form nor comelinefs. If a. liii. 2.—Regularity ; me¬ 
thod; order: 
What he fpoke, though it lack’d form a little, 
Was not like madnefs. Shakefpeare. 
External appearance without the effential qualities; 
empty (how ; 
Then 
