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   Forth , v.[AS. forð, fr. for akin to D. voort, G. fort √78. See Fore, For, and cf. Afford, Further, adv.]
   Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.
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   Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth.
   Tyndale.
   
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   From this time forth, I never will speak word.
   Shak.
   
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   I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more.
   Strype.
   
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   Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
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   When winter past, and summer scarce begun,
   Invites them forth to labor in the sun.
   Dryden.
   
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   Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
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   I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.
   Shak.
   
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   Throughly; from beginning to end. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From. -- Forth of, Forth from, out of. [Obs.] Shak. -- To bring forth. See under Bring.
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   Forth, prep. Forth from; out of. [Archaic]
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   Some forth their cabins peep.
   Donne.
   
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   Forth, n. [OE., a ford.  78. See Frith.] A way; a passage or ford. [Obs.]
   Todd.
   
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