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

p. p. of Forleave.

To lie in wait for; to ambush.

To leave off wholly.

To give up wholly.

To lose utterly.

To give up; to leave; to abandon.

See Forelie.

imp. pl. p. p. of Forlese.

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

In a forlorn manner.

State of being forlorn.

Same as Forlie.

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

being a matter of form only; lacking substance.

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

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

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

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

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.

a set of procedures required to make a transaction official.

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

To affect formality.

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".

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

attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening.

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

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

A salt of formic acid.

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

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.

First.

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

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

The female of a hawk or falcon.

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

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

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

Creative; imaginative.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The natural family of insects comprising the ants.

Formidableness.

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

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

In a formidable manner.

Very much afraid.

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

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

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.

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..

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

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization.

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

To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

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

reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

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

A set or prescribed model; a formula.

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

To reduce to a formula; to formulate.

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

Predestined.

Relating to a fornix.

To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

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.

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

A woman guilty of fornication.

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.

Very old.

To pass by or along; to pass over.

To waste away completely by suffering or torment.

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

Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel.

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.

One who forsakes or deserts.

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

To render misshapen.

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

To lose by sloth or negligence.

To loiter.

To lsoe by idleness or slotch.

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

To forbid; to prohibit.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.

To forestall.

A forester.

Distracted.

Spent with heat; covered with sweat.

To swear falsely; to commit perjury.

One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.

Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.

imp. of Forswear.

p. p. of Forswear.

State of being forsworn.

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

Loudly; strongly; powerfully.

Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.

A way; a passage or ford.

See Forby.

Ready or about to appear; making appearance.

Going forth.

To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.

Bold; forward; aggressive.

A straight path.

Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.

Forward.

Immediately; without delay; directly.

Therefore.

See Forty.

One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.

Capable of being fortified.