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adverb

Forwards, Forward adv. Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; opposed to backward.

adjective

Forward adj.

Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.

Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; too hasty. "Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do." "Nor do we find him forward to be sounded."

Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years. "I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness."

Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring. "The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow."

noun

Forward n. An agreement; a covenant; a promise. (Obs.) "Tell us a tale anon, as forward is."

verb

Forward v. t. (past & past part. forwarded; pres. part. forwarding)

To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.

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"Forward" Quotes from Famous Books

... [Coming forward—now on the verge of tears.] After such a night as I've had, too. I never could do without my ...

— The Gay Lord Quex - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur W. Pinero

... steeds snuff the evening air, Our pulses with their purpose tingle; The foeman's fires are twinkling there; He leaps to hear our sabres jingle! HALT! Each carbine send its whizzing ball: Now, cling! clang! forward ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various

... forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would ...

— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... under its effects, so a blow struck at the heart can not make itself fully felt while the mind is still unable to picture what the future will be like now that the grief has come. We only taste our bitterest grief when the mind has shaken itself aloof from the present woe, to travel forward and question what the future can hold for us, now that our life is bereft of ...

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

... call attention to the persistence of many types without appreciable progression during geological time; to show that this fact was not explicable on any other hypothesis than that put forward by Darwin; and by paleontological arguments, to pave the way for consideration of the imperfection ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

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