As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife"s voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there"s a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful!"
"Heck," said Herman, "It"s not just one car. It"s hundreds of them!"
—n. Sudden attack; raid. —v. Make a foray. [french: related to *fodder]
FORCE
majeure n. - irresistible force.
- unforeseeable circumstances excusing a person from the fulfilment of a contract. [french]
- —n. - power; strength, impetus; intense effort.
- coercion, compulsion.
- a military strength. B organized body of soldiers, police, etc.
- a moral, intellectual, or legal power, influence, or validity. B person etc. With such power (force for good).
- effect; precise significance.
- a influence tending to cause a change in the motion of a body. B intensity of this. —v. (-cing) 1 compel or coerce (a person) by force.
- make a forcible entry into; break open by force.
- drive or propel violently or against resistance.
- make (a way) by force.
- (foll. By on, upon) impose or press on (a person).
- cause, produce, or attain by effort (forced a smile; forced an entry).
- strain or increase to the utmost.
- artificially hasten the growth of (a plant).
- seek quick results from; accelerate (force the pace). force a person's hand make a person act prematurely or unwillingly. Force the issue make an immediate decision necessary. In force 1 valid (laws now in force).
- in great strength or numbers (attacked in force). [latin fortis strong]
- n. N.engl. Waterfall. [old norse]
FORGE
—v. (-ging) 1 make or write in fraudulent imitation.
- shape (metal) by heating and hammering. —n. - furnace or workshop etc. For melting or refining metal.
- blacksmith's workshop; smithy. forger n. [latin fabrica: related to *fabric]
- v. (-ging) move forward gradually or steadily. forge ahead 1 take the lead.
- progress rapidly. [perhaps an alteration of *force1]
FORGO
v. (also forego) (-goes; past -went; past part. -gone) go without; relinquish. [old english]
FORME
n. Printing body of type secured in a chase ready for printing. [var. Of *form]
FORTE
n. Person's strong point or speciality. [feminine of french *fort]
- mus. —adj. Loud. —adv. Loudly. —n. Loud playing or passage. [italian: related to *fort]
FORTH
adv. Archaic except in set phrases 1 forward; into view (bring forth; come forth).
- onwards in time (from this time forth).
- forwards (back and forth).
- out from a starting-point (set forth). and so forth see *so1. [old english]
FORTY
adj. & n. (pl. -ies) 1 four times ten.
- symbol for this (40, xl, xl).
- (in pl.) Numbers from 40 to 49, esp. The years of a century or of a person's life. fortieth adj. & n. [old english: related to *four]
- winks n. Colloq. Short sleep.
FORUM
n. - place of or meeting for public discussion.
- court or tribunal.
- hist. Public square in an ancient roman city used for judicial and other business. [latin]
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A dog"s sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew.