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Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps. Sir T. Browne.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In fork. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine. Ure. -- The forks of a river or a…

ish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. "Forky tongues." Pope.

Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. Knight.

Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.

A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]

A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

The noise made by a serpent. But hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue. Milton.

A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching. Craig.

A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard.

of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.

oving from the clouds to the earth. -- Chain lightning, lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes. -- Heat lightning, more or less vivid and extensive flashes of electric light, without thunder, seen near the horizon, esp. at the close of a hot day. -- Lightning arrester (Telegraphy), a device, at the place wh…

A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon. [Written also lintstock.]

Forked, with the points slightly curved outward.

A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field. Lizard fish (Zoöl.), a marine scopeloid fish of the genus Synodus, or Saurus, esp. S. foetens of the Southern United States and West Indies; -- called also sand pike. -- Lizard snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake (Eutæni…