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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.

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

A woman guilty of fornication. Shak.

An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.

p. p. of Forswear.

State of being forsworn. [R.]

Much worn. [Obs.] A silly man, in simple weeds forworn. Spenser.

Having four corners or angles.

Born free; not born in vasssalage; inheriting freedom.

Frozen. [Obs.] Well nigh frorn I feel. Spenser.

A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.

An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.

A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.

Born of a hag or witch. Shak.

The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.

A thorny shrub or tree (the Cratægus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Cratægus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. Gives not the hawthorn b…

Hawthorn. R. Scot.

Born under a hedge; of low birth. Shak.

Born in or of hell. Shak.