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To forbid; to prohibit. Shak.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

To forestall. [Obs.] Spenser.

A forester. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Distracted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [Obs.] P. Sidney.

upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak.

One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.

Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. [Obs.] Spenser.

imp. of Forswear.

p. p. of Forswear.

State of being forsworn. [R.]

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.…

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

The strong point; that in which one excels. fort"a The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. Jeffrey.

Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts. [R.] Shak.

Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this time forth, I never will speak word. Shak. I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquis…

See Forby.

Ready or about to appear; making appearance.