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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.

A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.

To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.

Bold; forward; aggressive.

Straight forward; in a straight direction. [Archaic] Sir P. Sidney.

Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

Forward. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

rectly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith. Acts ix. 18.

Therefore. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Forty.

Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.

Capable of being fortified. Johnson.

The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.

One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.

ength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott.

A little fort; a blockhouse. [Obs.] Spenser.