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A wind instrument of music in use among the Spaniards.

The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.

oForlese. [Obs.] The beasts their caves, the birds their neforlore. Fairfax.

Deserted abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

In a forlorn manner. Pollok.

State of being forlorn. Boyle.

Schorlaceous.

altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in "all forlorn," and similar expressions), and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer- ). It is frequently to be met with in old books,…

Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

s; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence. Some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world. Shak.

To put in a hovel; to shelter. To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson.

invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at. In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate. Rochester.

Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn. [R.]

See Orlop. [Obs.]

A soldier sent on a forlorn hope. Shak.

ight deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop. Platform car, a railway car without permanent raised sides or covering; a f -- Platform scale, a weighing machine, with a flat platform on which objects are weighed.

Bereft. Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. Heber.

em was the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles. Dryden. To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake it if it be not also a service of honor Macaulay.