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Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak.

The right to speak. [U.S.]

ut aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.

The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.

The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below.

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

r consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. Which now they hold by force, and not by right. Shak.

, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential. How forcible are right words! Job. vi. 2 Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken. Bacon. But I have reasons strong and forcible. Shak. That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. He is at once el…

engthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Fore-and-aft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.

The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

opriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.

Ready; directly forward; going before. [Obs.] "A foreright wind." Chapman.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.

s or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other…

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.

rom 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 writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. Mrs. Browning.