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Capable of being forded. -- Ford"a*ble*ness, n.

Without a ford. A deep and fordless river. Mallock.

To destroy; to undo; to ruin. [Obs.] This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite. Shak.

Undone; ruined. [Obs.] Spenser.

To drive about; to drive here and there. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Utterly drunk; very drunk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Entirely dry; withered. [Obs.] "A tree fordry." Chaucer.

To dwindle away; to disappear. [Obs.] Rom of R.

To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.

To foreordain.

Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

A preface. Furnvall.

A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp. Raymond.

An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.

Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable. Gordian knot, an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the…

A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.…

Half the length of a sword; close fight. "At half-sword." Shak.

A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark- colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.