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To extort; to draw from or forth by violence. [Obs.] Spenser.

To overtake. [Obs.] So forth he went and soon them overhent. Spenser.

Open to view; public; apparent; manifest. Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise. Bacon.

To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out. There is a cavern where my spirit Was panted forth in anguish. Shelley.

To set forth as a model or example. [Obs.] Hammond.

l in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense. Dry…

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1.

To bring forth young. [Obs.]

Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. Jer. Tailor.

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad. The warrior's name, Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame. J. Barlow.

To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance. When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear. Dryden.

ee Atlantes. -- Persian drill (Mech.), a drill which is turned by pushing a nut back and forth along a spirally grooved drill holder. -- Persian fire (Med.), malignant pustule. -- Persian powder. See Insect powder, under Insect. -- Persian red. See Indian red (a), under Indian. -- Persian wheel, a noria; a tympanu…

e's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." Shak. -- In the person of, in the place of; acting for. Shak.

To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.] "A personated mate." Milton.

To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

ts of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. Piston head (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. -- Pi…

A field of battle. [Obs.] Arbuthnot. Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. Shak.

A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone.

diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports. Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plie…