a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_; to swell, as with lust. ] (Med.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Antiorgastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The system by which a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruction, drill, or maneuvers; and (3) one or more classes of soldiers organized largely for territorial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular army and its reserves ordinarily constituting the first line of defense), territorial forces, or the like. In countries where conscription prevails a soldier is supposed to serve a given number of years. He is usually enrolled first in the regular army, then passes to its reserve, then into the home reserves, to serve until he reaches the age limit. It for any reason he is not enrolled in the regular army, he may begin his service in the army reserves or even the home reserves, but then serves the full number of years or up to the age limit. In equipment the organization of the army is into the three great arms of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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n. [ Gr. bi`os life + E. organ. ] (Biol.) A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Bojanus, the discoverer. ] (Zool.) A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a foxlike head.
Syn. -- Welsh corgi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., cut throat. ] (Mil.) Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. demi- gorge. ] (Fort.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ First mentioned by Lutatius, or Lactantius Placidus, the scholiast on Statius, perh. fr. Gr. dai`mwn god, deity + gorgo`s fierce, terrible ] A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name
Of Demogorgon. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disgorged p. pr. & vb. n. Disgorging. ] [ F. dégorger, earlier desgorger; pref. dé-, des- (L. dis-) + gorge. See Gorge. ] 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

They loudly laughed
To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
Into the sea. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dégorgement. ] The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. désorganisation. See Disorganize, v. t. ] 1. The act of disorganizing; destruction of system. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disorganized p. pr. & vb. n. Disorganizing ] [ Pref. dis- + organize: cf. F. désorganiser. ] To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. Durgā. ] (Myth.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [ Written also Durga. ] Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to forge with a drop forge; -- of metals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a device for making large forgings, in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged, pressing it into a form or anvil underneath, or between dies.
Syn. -- drop hammer, drop press. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Ect- + organism. ] (Biol.) An external parasitic organism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engorged p. pr. & vb. n. Engorging ] [ Pref. en- + gorge: cf. F. engorger to obstruct, cram. ] 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. 1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. engorgement. ] 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ent- + organism. ] (Biol.) An internal parasitic organism. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It.; -- so called because this phenomenon was looked upon as the work of a fairy (It. fata) of the name of Morgána. See Fairy. ] A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Forgive. [ 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 ]

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 ]

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

n.; pl. Forgeries [ Cf. F. forgerie. ] 1. The act of forging metal into shape. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Useless the forgery
Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are the forgeries of jealously. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. Waterland.

Syn. -- Counterfeit; Forgery. Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Forgot Forgat Obs.); p. p. Forgotten Forgot; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgetting. ] [ OE. forgeten, foryeten, AS. forgietan, forgitan; pref. for- + gietan, gitan (only in comp.), to get; cf. D. vergeten, G. vergessen, Sw. förgäta, Dan. forgiette. See For-, and Get, v. t. ] 1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps. ciii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let my right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath thy knee forget to bow? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can a woman forget her sucking child? . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Is. xlix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

To forget one's self. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. [ Archaic or Poetic ] “The forgetful wine.” J. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a forgetful manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.

Syn. -- Forgetfulnes, Oblivion. Forgetfulness is Anglo-Saxon, and oblivion is Latin. The former commonly has reference to persons, and marks a state of mind; the latter commonly has reference to things, and indicates a condition into which they are sunk. We blame a man for his forgetfulness; we speak of some old custom as buried in oblivion. But this discrimination is not strictly adhered to. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Forge. ] Inventive; productive; capable. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. vergissmeinnicht. ] (Bot.) A small perennial herb, of the genus Myosotis (Myosotis scorpiodes, Myosotis palustris, Myosotis incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful bright blue or white flowers, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
Syn. -- mouse ear, . [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ Formerly the name was given to the Ajuga Chamæpitus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who forgets; a heedless person. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By forgetting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of counterfeiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out. London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Forgave p. p. Forgiven p. pr. & vb. n. Forgiving ] [ OE. forgiven, foryiven, foryeven, AS. forgiefan, forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f&unr_;rgifva, Goth. fragiban to give, grant. See For-, and Give, v. t. ] 1. To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. [ 1913 Webster ]

To them that list the world's gay shows I leave,
And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven. [ 1913 Webster ]

And their sins should be forgiven them. Mark iv. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending. [ 1913 Webster ]

Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke xxiii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Sometimes both the person and the offense follow as objects of the verb, sometimes one and sometimes the other being the indirect object. “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” Matt. vi. 12. “Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.” Matt. ix. 2.

Syn. -- See excuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. forgifnes. ] 1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive. [ 1913 Webster ]

If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. Ps. cxxx. 3, 4.

Syn. -- Pardon, remission. -- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life there is a difference between them, such as we often find between corresponding Anglo-Saxon and Norman words. Forgive points to inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger. Pardon looks more to outward things or consequences, and is often applied to trifling matters, as when we beg pardon for interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd. The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not forgiveness. The two words are, therefore, very clearly distinguished from each other in most cases which relate to the common concerns of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who forgives. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.

-- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]