| Force (force) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Force |
| [See Farce to
stuff.] |
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
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Strength
or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an
unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an
influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or
convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special
signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a
contract, or a term.
Power exerted against will or consent;
compulsory power; violence; coercion.
Strength or power for war; hence, a body
of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for
action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the
plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as,
the laboring force of a plantation.
Strength
or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or
things; violence.
Any action between two
bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as
to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to
change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical,
thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as,
the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal
force.
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| Force (force) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Force |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Forced (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Forcing (?).] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL.
forciare, fortiare. See Force,
n.] |
To constrain to do or
to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible] to compel by
physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters
force slaves to labor.
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as,
to force conviction on the mind.
To do violence to; to overpower, or to
compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate;
to commit rape upon.
To obtain or win by strength; to take by
violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm,
as a fortress.
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc.,
by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as
along, away, from, into, through,
out, etc.
To put in force; to cause to be executed;
to make binding; to enforce.
To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to
strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to
produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a conceit or
metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
To compel (an adversary or
partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has
none.
To provide with forces; to reënforce;
to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
To allow the force of; to value; to care
for.
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To use violence; to make violent effort; to
strive; to endeavor.
To make a difficult matter of anything; to
labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account
of; to regard.
To be of force, importance, or weight; to
matter.
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