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n. 1. The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gardening) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forcing bed or
Forcing pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed. --
Forcing engine, a fire engine. --
Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. --
Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. --
Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle. --
Forcing pump. See Force pump (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Iso- + orcin. ] (Chem.) A crystalline hydrocarbon derivative, metameric with orcin, but produced artificially; -- called also cresorcin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymology uncertain: cf. F. orcine. ] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork. ] Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. “Porcine cheeks.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Resin + orcin. So called because in its higher homologue it resembles orcin. ] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin. [ 1913 Webster ]