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.

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

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.

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.

The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.

One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.

To raise defensive works.

A little fort; a blockhouse.

A little fort; a fortlet.

Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.

Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.

Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.

Having fortitude; courageous.

A little fort.

The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.

a higher programming language with an instruction set designed for ease of expression of mathematical functions, much used in programming of scientific and mathematical problems.

To tread down; to trample upon.

To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Accident; chance; casualty.

the goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche.

Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.

The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.

To fall out; to happen.

Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.

small genus of shrubs called kumquats, native to South China, producing small ovoid orangelike fruits called kumquats.

a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.

To regulate the fortune of; to make happy.

The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.

One the miners who took part in the California gold rush in 1849; an argonaut.

The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

Tired out with excessive waking or watching.

To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.

To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

planning for the future; concerned primarily with the future; -- contrasted with conern for the immediate present or reacting to past events.

One who forwards or promotes; a promoter.

The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.

The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

Same as Forward.

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

To desolate or lay waste utterly.

To weary extremely; to dispirit.

To weep much.

See Forewite.

Wherefore; because.

Much worn.

pres. indic. 1st 3d pers. sing. of Forwete.

To wrap up; to conceal.