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   Forge (fōrj), 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.  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.
   
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   In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.
   
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   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.
   
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   3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.]
   
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   In the greater bodies the forge was easy. Bacon.
   
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   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.
   
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   Forge, 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.
   
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   Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. Shak.
   
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   2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
   
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   Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. Locke.
   
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   Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. Tennyson.
   
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   3. To coin. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   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.
   
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   That paltry story is untrue,
   
   And forged to cheat such gulls as you. Hudibras.
   
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   Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. Macaulay.
   
   Syn. -- To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.
   
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   Forge, v. i. [See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]
   1. To commit forgery.
   
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   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.
   
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   And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. De Quincey.
   
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   Forge, v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, “to forge a ship forward”.
   
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