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Forging

The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

Forgivable

Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.

Forgive

To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

Forgiveness

The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.

Forgiving

Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.

Forgo

To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.

Forhall

To harass; to torment; to distress.

Forisfamiliate

To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.

Fork

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Fork-tailed

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Forkbeard

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

Forked

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.

Forkiness

The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.

Forktail

One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forked. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

Forky

Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.

Forlay

To lie in wait for; to ambush.

Forlet

To give up; to leave; to abandon.

Forlorn

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

Form

To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

form-only

being a matter of form only; lacking substance.

Formal

Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.

Formaldehyde

A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.

Formalin

An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.

Formalism

The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.

Formalist

One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.

formalities

a set of procedures required to make a transaction official.

Formality

The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

formalized

concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".

Formally

In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.

formalwear

attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening.

Format

The shape and size of a book or other printed publication; hence, its external form.

format

to set into a specific format; -- of printed matter or data recorded on a data soorage medium.

Formation

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

Formative

That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.

Formed

Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.

Formedon

A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

Formell

The female of a hawk or falcon.

Former

Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.

Formeret

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

Formerly

In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.

Formic

Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.

Formica

A thermosetting plastic material composed of melamine resin, having good heat and chemical resistance, and commonly used as the surface layer in laminated sheets employed as coverings for counter tops, walls, or furniture.

Formicaroid

Like or pertaining to the family Formicarid/ or ant thrushes.

Formicary

The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.

Formicate

To creep or crawl like ants; swarm with, or as with, ants.

Formication

A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.

Formicid

Pertaining to the ants. One of the family Formicid/, or ants.

Formicidae

The natural family of insects comprising the ants.

Formidable

Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.

Formidableness

The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.

Forming

The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.

Formless

Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.

Formosa

An island off the coast of China, also called Taiwan. It was occupied by Japan from 1895 to 1945, when it was returned to Chinese sovereignty. After the Communist revolution which took over the Chinese mainland in 1949, the Nationalist Chinese under Chang Kai-Shek retreated to the island of Formosa and established that island as the base of their government, being recognized for several years as the de jure possessor of the China seat in the United Nations. The capital is Taipei. As of 1998, both the Taiwan government and the mainland China government recognized Taiwan as properly a part of China, but the island is currently ruled as a de facto independent nation, though it does not possess a seat in the United Nations. The question of when and under what circumstances the island will be reunited with the mainland government is still unresolved.

Formosan

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, Formosa or the natives of Formosa; as, The native Formosan population now forms a minority on their own island..

Formula

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

Formularization

The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.

Formulary

A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formula/, etc.; a book of precedents.

Formulate

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

formulated

reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Formulation

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

Formule

A set or prescribed model; a formula.

Formulization

The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.

Formulize

To reduce to a formula; to formulate.

Formyl

A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.

Fornicate

To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.

Fornication

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

Fornicator

An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.

Fornix

An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva. Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

Forpass

To pass by or along; to pass over.

Forpine

To waste away completely by suffering or torment.

Forray

The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray.

Forrill

Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel.

Forsake

To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

Forsay

To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.

Forslack

To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Forsooth

A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.

Forspent

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.

Forswat

Spent with heat; covered with sweat.

Forswear

To swear falsely; to commit perjury.

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