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p. p. of Forleave. Chaucer.

To lie in wait for; to ambush. An ambushed thief forlays a traveler. Dryden.

To leave off wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To give up wholly. [Obs.]

To lose utterly. [Obs.] haucer.

To give up; to leave; to abandon. [Obs.] "To forlet sin." Chaucer.

See Forlie.

oForlese. [Obs.] The beasts their caves, the birds their neforlore. Fairfax.

Deserted abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

In a forlorn manner. Pollok.

State of being forlorn. Boyle.

Same as Forlie. [Obs.]

A suffix used to denote in the form or shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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

sembling 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. Official formalism. Sir H. Rawlinson.

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. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits. Young.

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

To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. [R.]