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The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt.

To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. [Archaic] Which peril heaven forefend! Shak.

Excessively alarmed; in great fear. [Obs.] "Forfered of his death." Chaucer.

r a penalty; to transgress. [Obs.] And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never forfeted. Chaucer.

A pair of shears. Pope.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

imp. of Forgive.

r a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.] Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton.

think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps. ciii. 2. Let y right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. Hath thy knee forget to bow Shak.

A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.

Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.

In a forgetful manner.

The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

Inventive; productive; capable. [Obs.] Shak.

Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten. Carlyle.