'Forcing' definitions:

Definition of 'Forcing'

From: GCIDE
  • Force \Force\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced; p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing.] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force, n.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. [1913 Webster]
  • To force their monarch and insult the court. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • To force a spotless virgin's chastity. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • To force the tyrant from his seat by war. --Sahk. [1913 Webster]
  • Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • What can the church force more? --J. Webster. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. To provide with forces; to re["e]nforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • For me, I force not argument a straw. --Shak.
  • Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Forcing'

From: GCIDE
  • Forcing \For"cing\, n.
  • 1. The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Gardening) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. [1913 Webster]
  • Forcing bed or Forcing pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed.
  • Forcing engine, a fire engine.
  • Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together.
  • Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc.
  • Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle.
  • Forcing pump. See Force pump (b) . [1913 Webster]

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