a method of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings.

Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.

Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.

physical energy or intensity.

Having little or no force; feeble.

Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.

The act of forcing; compulsion.

A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

One who, or that which, forces or drives.

Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.

Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.

The quality of being forcible.

In a forcible manner.

The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.

Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.

Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.

To cut completely; to cut off.

To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.

Capable of being forded.

Without a ford.

To destroy; to undo; to ruin.

Undone; ruined.

To drive about; to drive here and there.

Utterly drunk; very drunk.

Entirely dry; withered.

To dwindle away; to disappear.

Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

The evening between twilight and bedtime.

Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.

The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast; the mast next above the foremast. See Ship.

the topsail on a foremast. See Sail.

To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.

To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.

To allege or cite before.

To set, order, or appoint, beforehand.

Previous appointment; preordinantion.

That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.

The breast beam of a loom.

An ancestor. See Forbear.

Prognostication; presage.

The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

One who forebodes.

Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

In a foreboding manner.

A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.

Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.

One who forecast.

The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.

Chosen beforehand.

Cited or quoted before or above.

To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

To preconceive; to imagine beforehand.

To date before the true time; to antedate.

The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.

To plan beforehand; to intend previously.

To determine or decree beforehand.

To bestow beforehand.

Doom or sentence decreed in advance.

One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.

Defense in front.

To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

The finger next to the thumb; the index finger.

To flow before.

One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.

Foremost part or place.

A first game; first plan.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer line may be attached.

Same as Forgather.

A premium paid by a lessee when taking his lease.

An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.

To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.

One who forbears to enjoy.

past; -- used of time; as, foregone summers. Contrassted to present.

An inevitable outcome; a certain result; a certainty.

On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

To conjecture.

The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, or to the entrance of the bile duct.

Done beforehand; anticipative.

Early; timely; seasonable.

The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.

To hear beforehand.

The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

See Forhend.

To hew or cut in front.

The forward part of the hold of a ship.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.

A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

born in another area or country than that lived in; -- of persons.

A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

Foreign.

To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.

A judgment by which one is deprived or put out of a right or thing in question.

Prejudgment.

To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

That may be foreknown.

One who foreknows.

With foreknowledge.

Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

To bind with a forel.

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

To lay down beforehand.

One who leads others by his example; a guide.

See Forlend.

See Forlet.

To lie in front of.

To lift up in front.

The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

To look beforehand or forward.

The first or chief man The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker. The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

The position of a foreman.