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The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance. "This offer comes from mercy." Shak.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

Forward, in progression; onward; -- usually with a verb of motion; as, move on; go on. "Time glides on." Macaulay. The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger. Shak.

Looking on or forward.

The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events. The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life. Prof. Wilson.

Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.

To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.

The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.

Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.

To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding. [Poetic] At last our grating keels outslide. Whittier.

A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.

fter being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

ee under 6th Bill. -- Parcel office, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery. -- Parcel post, that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels. -- Part and parcel. See under Part.

A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.

A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. Tennyson.

Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] Burton.

t, hither and thither; to and fro; from one place or predicament to another; backward and forward. [Colloq.] -- Pillar saint. See Stylite. -- Pillars of the fauces. See Fauces, 1.

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.