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verb

Forge v. t. (past & past part. forged; pres. part. forging)

1.

To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. "Mars's armor forged for proof eterne."

2.

To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. "Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use." "Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves."

3.

To coin. (Obs.)

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. "That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you." "Forged certificates of his... moral character."

Synonyms: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.

Forge v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Forge v. i.

1.

To commit forgery.

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. "And off she (a ship) forged without a shock."

adjective

forged adj.

1.

Not genuine; counterfeit; used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge, v. t., 4.

Synonyms: bad.

2.

Shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; of metal objects. Note: Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forged" Quotes from Famous Books

... excess, that TOM NASH, an "Author by Profession," never fastidiously modest, blushed at the title of his "Pierce Pennilesse," which the publisher had flourished in the first edition, like "a tedious mountebank." The booksellers forged great names to recommend their works, and passed off in currency their base metal stamped with a royal head. "It was an usual thing in those days," says honest Anthony Wood, "to set a great name to a book or books, by the sharking booksellers or snivelling ...

— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... returning, the whole thing was best forgotten. The past was dead to them, and they were without a future. The news that Godfrey brought of the blow that had been struck against the Czar roused them for a few days. The war then was still being carried on. Others were wielding the weapons they had forged, but of what had happened afterwards Godfrey was ignorant. Four men had been arrested or killed; but whether they had played an important part in the matter he knew not, nor whether others had shared their fate. All he ...

— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty

... corroborated hers, and given him, as he expressed it, "a fresh point" in his game. But alas for Lucian! Every fancied discovery only beguiled him farther and farther from the truth, and rendered him more and more blind to the chains that were being forged about him. ...

— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch

... enclosing Rita's monogram, repeated on the backs of chairs and sofas, and on the heavy curtains reaching from ceiling to floor. To the same time belonged the ebony and bronze doors, the silver statuette at the foot of the stairs, the forged iron balustrade reproducing right up the marble staircase Rita's decorative monogram in its complicated design. Afterwards the work was stopped and the house had fallen into disrepair. When Rita devoted it to the Carlist cause a bed was put into that drawing-room, just simply ...

— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad

... of trade unionism among women remained with men, no link between the two was likely to be forged; the problem is so entirely apart from any that men unionists ever have to face themselves. It is true that with a man the question of adhering to a union alike in times of prosperity or times of stress may be complicated ...

— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry

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