
adv. & prep. [ See Foreby. ] Near; hard by; along; past. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
To tell her if her child went ought forby. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OE. forti, fourti, fowerti, AS. feówertig; feówer four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjörutīu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidwōr tigjus. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Fourteen. ] Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
n. One the miners who took part in the California gold rush in 1849; an argonaut. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. (Zool.) The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus). [ 1913 Webster ]