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.

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.

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.

To repay; to requite.

To forget.

p. p. of Foryete.

See Sforzato.

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal foss/ containing the nostrils in most birds.

A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.

A ditch or moat.