Fornicator
(For"ni*ca`tor) n. [F. fornicateur, OF. fornicator, from L. fornicator.] An unmarried person,
male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
Fornicatress
(For"ni*ca`tress) n. [Cf. F. fornicatrice, L. fornicatrix.] A woman guilty of fornication.
Shak.
Fornix
(||For"nix) n.; pl. Fornices [L., an arch.] (Anat.) (a) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of
the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva. (b) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous
tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
Forold
(For*old") a. Very old. [Obs.]
A bear's skin, coal-black, forold.
Chaucer. Forpass
(For*pass") v. t. & i. To pass by or along; to pass over. [Obs.] Spenser.
Forpine
(For*pine") v. t. To waste away completely by suffering or torment. [Archaic] "Pale as a forpined
ghost." Chaucer.
Forray
(For"ray) v. t. [OE. forrayen. See Foray.] To foray; to ravage; to pillage.
For they that morn had forrayed all the land.
Fairfax. Forray
(For"ray), n. The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray.
Forrill
(For"rill) n. [See Forel.] Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. McElrath.
Forsake
(For*sake") v. t. [imp. Forsook ; p. p. Forsaken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Forsaking.] [AS. forsacan
to oppose, refuse; for- + sacan to contend, strive; akin to Goth. sakan. See For-, and Sake.]
1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and
flatterers forsake us in adversity.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments.
Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
If you forsake the offer of their love.
Shak. Syn. — To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up; renounce; reject. See Abandon.
Forsaker
(For*sak"er) n. One who forsakes or deserts.
Forsay
(For*say") v. t. [AS. forsecgan to accuse; pref. for- + secgan to say.] To forbid; to renounce; to
forsake; to deny. [Obs.] Spenser.
Forshape
(For*shape") v. t. [Pref. for- + shape, v.t.] To render misshapen. [Obs.] Gower.
Forslack
(For*slack") v. t. [Pref. for- + slack to neglect.] To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste
by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.
Forslouthe
(For*slouth"e) v. t. [See For- , and Slouth.] To lose by sloth or negligence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Forslow
(For*slow") v. t. [Pref. for- + slow.] To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off. [Obs.] Bacon.
Forslow
(For*slow"), v. i. To loiter. [Obs.] Shak.
