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A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.…

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

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.

ard 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 inquisitor bad me…

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.

Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man. [Archaic] Lowell. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

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.

Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.

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.