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A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.

Forced out at the surface; as, extrusive rocks; -- contrasted with intrusive.

Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton.

Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

e or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. Shak.

pes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and reënforced concrete.

To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak.

To stuff; to lard; to farce. [R.] Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.

ed fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. [Written also forced meat.]

The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person. Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn. Shak.

A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. King.

Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition. The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. Hayward. This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases. Pope. -- To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. -- To give on or upon. (a) To rush; to fall upon. [Obs.] (b) To…

ood grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. -- With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. Macaulay.

ing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or smeering smile. I.Watts. He showed twenty teeth at a grin. Addison.

gress toward eminence; grade; degree. Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison.

which great force, with slow motion, is communicated to a large plunger by means of water forced into the cylinder in which it moves, by a forcing pump of small diameter, to which the power is applied, the principle involved being the same as in the hydrostatic bellows. Also called hydraulic press, and Bramah press. In…

-- Imperfect obligations (Law), obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law. -- Imperfect power (Math.), a number which can not be produced by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus, 9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect c…