FOR 
which them forrqyed late. Spenfcr. —For they that morn 
had forraid all the land. Faifax. 
FQRRAY', f. The aift of foraging; the aft of plun¬ 
dering : 
A band of Brytons, ryding on forray 
Few dayes before, had gotten a great pray. Spenfer. 
FOR'RES, a town of Scotland, in the county of Mur¬ 
ray ; near which (lands an ancient pillar, twenty-five feet 
in height, carved with foldiers on horfeback and on foot, 
&c. called the Danifh Pillar, fuppofed to have been 
erected in memory of the defeat of the Danes near this 
fpot, in the year 1008, by Malcolm II. On a moor near 
tliis town is placed by Shakefpeare Macbeth’s converfa- 
tion with the witches : ten miles weft of Elgin, and eight 
e_aft of Nairn. Lat.57.35. N. Ion. o. 20. W. Edinburgh. 
FORS, a. town of Sweden, in the province of ’Weft: 
Gothland : feventeen miles fouth-fputh-eaft of Uddevalla. 
To FORSA'KE, v. a. pret. forfook ; part. pafT. forfook, 
Or forfaken ; f verfaaken, Dut.j To leave in refentment, 
negleiSt or diflike.—’Twus now the time when firft Saul 
God forfook. Cowley. 
Daughter of Jove, whofe arms in thunder wield 
Th’ avenging bolt, and (hake the dreadful ftiield, 
‘ Forfook by thee, in vain I fought thy aid. Pope. 
To leave ; to go away from ; to depart from : 
Unwilling I forfook your friendly ftate, 
Commanded by the gods, and forc’d by fate. Drydcn. 
To defert ; to fail : 
Truth, modefty, and ftiame, the world forfook ; 
Fraud, avarice, and force, their places took. Drydcn. 
Their purple majefty, 
And all thofe outward (hows which we call greatnefs. 
Languid) and droop, feem empty and forfaken, 
And draw the wond’ring gazers eyes no more. Rowe. 
FORS A'KER, f. Deferter ; one that forfakes —Thou 
didft deliver us into the hands of lawlefs enemies, 1110ft 
hateful forfaiters of God. Apociypha. 
To FORSA'Y, v. a. To renounce : 
But (hepherd muft walk another way, 
Sike worldly fovenance he muft forfay , Spenfer. 
To forbid : 
And fiihence thepherds been forfaid 
From places of delight. Spenfer. 
FORS'CHET,yi in old records, a drip of land lying 
next to the highway. 
FORSCHO'KE, f. [derclibhtm, Lat. forfaken.] In one 
of our (latutes, it is fpecially ufed for lands or tenements 
feifed by a lord, for want of fervices performed by the 
tenant, and. quietly held by fuch lord beyond a year and a 
day ; now the tenant, who fees his land taken into the 
hands of the lord, and poflefled fo long, and will not 
purfue the courfe appointed by law to recover it, doth in 
prefumption of law difavow or forfake all the right he 
hath to the fame'; and then fuch lands (hall be called 
forefehoke. 10 Ed. II. c. 1. 
FORSE. a river of Scotland, in the county of Caith- 
nefs, which runs into the North Sea, fix miles weft of 
Thurfo. 
FORS'KAHL (Peter), a celebrated Swedifh botanift 
and pupil of Linnaeus, born in the province of Upland, in 
1736. Heftudied at the univerfity of Gottingen, and dif- 
puted there De Principiis Philofophia recentioris. After his 
return to Sweden, he refided iome time at Upfal, and then 
removed to Stockholm, where he publifhed, in 1759, a 
fmall political work, entitled Thoughts on Civil Liberty, 
which expofed him to fome danger. In 1760 lie was in¬ 
vited to Copenhagen by his Danifh majefty, Frederic V. 
who, in confequence of his knowledge of the oriental 
languages and natural hifiory, appointed him to accom¬ 
pany to Arabia the travellers fent to that country for the 
purpofe of making difeoveries, and at the fame time con- 
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ferred on him the title of profeftor. He fet out on this 
journey in 1761, with Frederic Chriftian V011 Haven, D. 
Chriftian Charles Cramer, and Carden Niebuhr, and died 
at Jeriin in Arabia in July 1763. From the papers and 
memorandums which he left behind him, his feilow-tra- 
veller Niebuhr publifhed his following works : 1. Defcrip. 
tiones Animalium, Avium , Amphibioruvi, Pifcium, hfcblorum, 
Vermivm , qua in Itinere orientali obfei vavit. Havnise 1775, 
4to. The firft part contains a fyftematic nomenclature of 
all the quadrupeds, birds, amphibious animals, fiftt, in. 
fe&s, and worms, which occurs in the author's papers! 
The names are in Latin, Arabic, and Greek. Then follow 
about 300 deferiptionsof birds, amphibious animals, fiftt, 
infects and worms, teftudines and zoophytes, according to 
the Linnaean fyftem ; and the whole is concluded with the 
materia medica ufed at Cairo in Egypt. 2. Flora Mgyp- 
tiaco-Arabica, five Defcriptiones Plantarum quas per Aigyptv.ni 
Infcnorem & Arabiam felieem detexit ; pof mortem edidit Nie¬ 
buhr ; acccdit tabula Arabia Felicis Geograpkico-botanica, ibid. 
I 775 > 4-to. 3- leones Rerum naturalium quas in Itinere orient 
tali depmgi curavit Fdrjkal ; pof ejus mortem ad Regis manda - 
tum ari incifas, , edidit Niebuhr , ibid. 1776, 4to. with -forty- 
three plates. The drawings -were executed by Bauren- 
feind, the draftfman fent out on the above expedition, and 
who alfo died by the way. Twenty of thefe plates re- 
prefent plants ; and the remaining twenty-three, animals, 
'I his work is valuable to thofe w ho are defirous of being 
acquainted witli the Arabic names ufed in natural hiftory, 
and of many infeCts which occur in the Old Teftament, as 
has been (hewn by Michaelis in his-Oriental Bibliothecae. 
FORSKOH'LEA, f. [fo named in memory of the 
above-mentioned Peter Forfkahl.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs oftandria, order tetragynia, or clafs decandria, 
order pentagynia, in the natural order of urticae, Jvjf. 
The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium four 
or five leaved ereCt: leaflets linear-lanceolate, parallel, 
acute, permanent. Corolla : petals eight or ten, rude, 
fpatulate, concave, ereCt, withering, fhorter than the 
calyx, the claws the length of the border. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments eight or ten, filiform, each within each petal, elafi. 
tic, the length of the calyx ; antherae, twin, roundifn. 
Piftillum : germs four or five, diftant, oblong, woolly ; 
ftyles briftle-fhaped ; ftigmas Ample, Pericarpium none : 
(capfules five, woolly, ovate, acuminate at both ends, 
comprelled, one-celled, not opening. Gartner.) Seeds: 
four or five, oblong, comprefied, attenuated to both ends, 
interwoven with wool ; (folitary, Gartner, who names 
capfules, what are here called feeds.) The number 
varies in the parts of fructification, and is extricated with 
difficulty, on account of the wool in which they are in¬ 
volved. The number of capfules varies from three to 
five. Gartner. — EJfential Char abler. Calyx four or five¬ 
leaved, longer than the corolla ; petals eight or ten, fpa. 
tulate; pericarpium none ; feeds five, connected by 
wool ; (capfules five, woolly ; feeds folitary, Gartner.) 
Species. 1. Forfkohlea tenaciftima, or clammy forfkoh- 
lea : hairy.hifpid, leaves elliptic awnlefs, calycine feg- 
ments oblong-lanceolate (harp. According to Jacquin, 
the Item is a foot or a foot and a half high, partly red, 
partly pale green with blood-red dots, hifpid with white 
hairs and upright ; leaves entire at the bafe, loofely fer¬ 
rate, (harp, very pale green, ciliate with fhort hairs,hook¬ 
ed at the end, whence they adhere to any thing. Native 
of Egypt. Introduced in 1770, by M. Richard. It 
flowers in July and Auguft. 
2. Forfkohlea Candida, or rough forficohlea : fcabrous; 
leaves elliptic waved awnlefs, calcyine fegments ovate 
obtufe. Stem fhrubbyifh, frnooth, refembling that of the 
foregoing, wliitifti and woody at the bafe. Leaves with 
three or four angles or teeth on each -fide, much fmaller 
than in the foregoing fpecies, white-tomentofe underneath, 
adhering by the roughnefs on the upper furface, as in that; 
fiowers axillary, feflile, fmaller than in the firft fpecies j 
petals white. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; flowers 
in June and July ; perennial, 
3. For* 
