n. 1. 1 small very elongate sea poachers.
Syn. -- Aspidophoroides monopterygius [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless. [ Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled ]
Syn. -- colourful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [ Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome. [ Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green ] [ Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light. ]
Syn. -- colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Corves [ Cf. LG. & D. korf basket, G. korb, fr. L. corbis. ] 1. A basket. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) (a) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore. (b) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of error; wrong. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. tasteful; having a good taste; -- of food. tasteless
Syn. -- flavourful, flavorous, flavourous, flavorsome, flavoursome, sapid, saporous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Forfeiture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. forfet crime, penalty, F. forfait crime (LL. forefactum, forifactum), prop. p. p. of forfaire to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act beyond; L. foris out of doors, abroad, beyond + facere to do. See Foreign, and Fact. ] 1. Injury; wrong; mischief. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. forfait, p. p. of forfaire. See Forfeit, n. ] Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To tread the forfeit paradise. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Forfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Forfeiting. ] [ OE. forfeten. See Forfeit, n. ] To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] had forfeited their property by their crimes. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Undone and forfeited to cares forever! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fail to keep an obligation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. or a. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Once more I will renew
His lapsèd powers, though forfeite. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. forfeiture, LL. forisfactura. ] 1. The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct. [ 1913 Webster ]

What should I gain
By the exaction of the forfeiture? Shak.

Syn. -- Fine; mulct; amercement; penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. for- + fend. See Forewend. ] To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which peril heaven forefend! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This is etymologically the preferable spelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. [ See For-, and Fear. ] Excessively alarmed; in great fear. [ Obs. ] “Forfered of his death.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Forfeit. ] To incur a penalty; to transgress. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never forfeted. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] A pair of shears. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. forfex, forficis, shears. ] (Zool.) Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., small shears, scissors, dim. of forfex shears. ] (Zool.) A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family of insects incliuding the typical earwigs.
Syn. -- family Forficulidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Gorflies [ Gore (AS. gor) dung + fly. ] (Zool.) A dung fly. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) Rays (chiefly cathode rays) developed by the electric discharge in Hittorf tubes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Elec.) (a) A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824). (b) A Crookes tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) 1. A reddish-brown grouse (Lagopus Scoticus) of upland moors of Great Britain; the European ptarmigan, or red grouse, also called the moorgame.
Syn. -- red grouse, moorbird, moorgame, Lagopus scoticus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The European heath grouse. See under Heath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gray flycatcher of Southwestern U. S. and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings; the scissortailed flycatcher.
Syn. -- scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Short for Norfolk Jacket. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Eng.) (a) A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk. (b) A native or inhabitant of Norfolk. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. The stone curlew. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a liver-and-white or black-and-white color. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. (Zool.) A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. orf, yrfe, cattle, property + gild, gield, money, fine. ] (O. Eng. Law) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. orfraie. Cf. Osprey, Ossifrage. ] (Zool.) The osprey. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. orfrais, F. orfroi; F. or gold + fraise, frise, fringe, ruff. See Fraise, and cf. Auriphrygiate. ] See Orphrey. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from its inventor, Ruhmkorff, a german physicist. ] (Elec.) See Induction coil, under Induction. [ 1913 Webster ]