'Forth' definitions:
Definition of 'forth'
From: WordNet
adverb
From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach" [syn: away, off, forth]
adverb
Forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward" [syn: forth, forward, onward]
adverb
Out into view; "came forth from the crowd"; "put my ideas forth"
noun
A river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth [syn: Forth, Forth River]
Definition of 'Forth'
From: GCIDE
- Forth \Forth\, v.[AS. for[eth], fr. for akin to D. voort, G. fort [root]78. See Fore, For, and cf. Afford, Further, adv.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
- From this time forth, I never will speak word. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more. --Strype. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. [1913 Webster]
- I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Throughly; from beginning to end. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forth'
From: GCIDE
- Forth \Forth\, prep. Forth from; out of. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Some forth their cabins peep. --Donne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forth'
From: GCIDE
- Forth \Forth\, n. [OE., a ford. ? 78. See Frith.] A way; a passage or ford. [Obs.] --Todd. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'forth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
Words containing 'Forth'
- And so forth,
- Forth from,
- Forth of,
- From forth,
- So forth,
- Back and forth,
- Going forth,
- So far forth,
- To body forth,
- To break forth,
- To bring forth,
- To call forth,
- To cast forth,
- To give forth,
- To go forth,
- To hold forth,
- To lay forth,
- To look forth,
- To put forth,
- To set forth,
- To show forth,
- To spring forth,
- To step forth,
- blossom forth,
- body forth,
- break forth,
- bring forth,
- burgeon forth,
- burst forth,
- call forth,
- cast forth,
- come forth,
- firth of forth,
- forth river,
- give forth,
- go forth,
- hold forth,
- issue forth,
- pour forth,
- put forth,
- sally forth,
- sallying forth,
- send forth,
- set forth,
- stretch forth,
- Holder-forth,
- To put forth the hand against,
- back-and-forth,
- move back and forth