forg

imp. of Forgive. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Forged p. pr. & vb. n. Forging ] [ F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate. ] 1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To coin. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. [ 1913 Webster ]

That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel. ] 1. To commit forgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

And off she [ a ship ] forged without a shock. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. &unr_; soft, tender. Cf. Fabric. ] 1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the greater bodies the forge was easy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. Raymond. --
Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan. --
Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. --
Forge rolls,
Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. --
Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. --
Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge, v. t., 4.
Syn. -- bad. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; -- of metal objects. Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Forgemen A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ Cf. F. forgeur metal worker, L. fabricator artificer. See Forge, n. & v. t., and cf. Fabricator. ] One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document. [ 1913 Webster ]