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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.

ed 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.

Very old. [Obs.] A bear's skin, coal-black, forold. Chaucer.

To pass by or along; to pass over. [Obs.] Spenser.

To waste away completely by suffering or torment. [Archaic] "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer.

To foray; to ravage; to pillage. For they that morn had forrayed all the land. Fairfax.

Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. McElrath.

esert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30.

One who forsakes or deserts.

To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny. [Obs.] Spenser.

To render misshapen. [Obs.] Gower.

To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

To lose by sloth or negligence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off. [Obs.] Bacon.

To lsoe by idleness or slotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.