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Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

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

One who reforges.

s; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden.

By forgery; falsely.

The act of forging; forgery. [Obs.] [Written also counterfaisance.]

A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.] By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.

was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

To commit forgery.

The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.

the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery. Brande & C.

Imitation of handwriting; forgery.

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

False writing; forgery.

A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.]

Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for w…

Wearing a visor; masked. Visored falsehood and base forgery. Milton.