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FOR'WARD, adv. [ L. versus; directed to the forepart. Forwards is also used, but it is a corruption.]

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; progressively; opposed to backward. Go forward; move forward. He ran backward and forward.

In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.

FOR'WARD, a.

1. Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet; the forward horse in a team.

2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Gal. 2.

3. Ardent; eager; earnest; violent.

Or lead the forward youth to noble war.

4. Bold; confident; less reserved or modest than is proper; in an ill sense; as, the boy is too forward for his years.

5. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season. The grass or the grain is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

6. Quick; hasty; too ready. Be not forward to speak in public. Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.

7. Anterior; fore.

Let us take the instant by the forward top.

8. Advanced; not behindhand.

FOR'WARD, v.t.

1. To advance; to help onward; to promote; as, to forward a good design.

2. To accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

3. To send forward; to send towards the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter or dispatches.


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FOR'WARD, adv. [ L. versus; directed to the forepart. Forwards is also used, but it is a corruption.]

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; progressively; opposed to backward. Go forward; move forward. He ran backward and forward.

In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.

FOR'WARD, a.

1. Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet; the forward horse in a team.

2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Gal. 2.

3. Ardent; eager; earnest; violent.

Or lead the forward youth to noble war.

4. Bold; confident; less reserved or modest than is proper; in an ill sense; as, the boy is too forward for his years.

5. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season. The grass or the grain is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

6. Quick; hasty; too ready. Be not forward to speak in public. Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.

7. Anterior; fore.

Let us take the instant by the forward top.

8. Advanced; not behindhand.

FOR'WARD, v.t.

1. To advance; to help onward; to promote; as, to forward a good design.

2. To accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

3. To send forward; to send towards the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter or dispatches.

FOR'WARD, a.

  1. Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in fleet; the forward horse in a team.
  2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Gal. ii.
  3. Ardent; eager; earnest; violent. Or lead the forward youth to noble war. Prior.
  4. Bold; confident; less reserved or modest than is proper; in an ill sense; as, the boy is too forward for his years.
  5. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season. The grass or the grain is forward, or forward the season; we have a forward spring.
  6. Quick; hasty; too ready. Be not forward to speak in public. Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.
  7. Anterior; fore. Let us take the instant by the forward top. – Shak.
  8. Advanced; not behindhand. – Shak.

FOR'WARD, adv. [Sax. forweard; for, fore, and weard, turned, L. versus; directed to the forepart.]

Toward a part or place before or in front, onward; progressively; opposed to backward. Go forward; move forward. He ran backward and forward. In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.


FOR'WARD, v.t.

  1. To advance; to help onward; to promote; as, to forward a good design.
  2. To accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
  3. To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter or dispatches.

For"ward
  1. An agreement; a covenant; a promise.

    [Obs.]

    Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.

  2. Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. Gal. ii. 10.

    Nor do we find him forward to be sounded. Shak.

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

  8. 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.     Shak.

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Forward

FOR'WARD, adverb [ Latin versus; directed to the forepart. Forwards is also used, but it is a corruption.]

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; progressively; opposed to backward. Go forward; move forward He ran backward and forward

In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.

FOR'WARD, adjective

1. Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet; the forward horse in a team.

2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Galatians 2:10.

3. Ardent; eager; earnest; violent.

Or lead the forward youth to noble war.

4. Bold; confident; less reserved or modest than is proper; in an ill sense; as, the boy is too forward for his years.

5. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season. The grass or the grain is forward or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

6. Quick; hasty; too ready. Be not forward to speak in public. Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.

7. Anterior; fore.

Let us take the instant by the forward top.

8. Advanced; not behindhand.

FOR'WARD, verb transitive

1. To advance; to help onward; to promote; as, to forward a good design.

2. To accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

3. To send forward; to send towards the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter or dispatches.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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KEDGE, n. [allied probably to cag and keg.] A small anchor, used to keep a ship steady when riding in a harbor or river, and particularly at the turn of the tide, to keep her clear of her bower anchor, also to remove her from one part of a harbor to another, being carried out in a boat and let go, as in warping or kedging. [Sometimes written kedger.]

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