Chapter Forfeitable to Forisfamiliate of F by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.]

In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

Bacon.

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.

Forge
(Forge), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged (forjd); 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.

Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.

Shak.

2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.

Locke.

Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.

Tennyson.

3. To coin. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you.

Hudibras.

Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.

Macaulay.

Syn. — To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.

Forge
(Forge), v. i. [See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]

1. To commit forgery.

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.

And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.

De Quincey.

Forge
(Forge), v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Forgeman
(Forge"man) n.; pl. Forgemen A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

Forger
(For"ger) n.[Cf. F. forgeur metal worker, L. fabricator artificer. See Forge, n. & v. t., and cf. Fabricator.] One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

Forgery
(For"ger*y) n.; pl. Forgeries [Cf. F. forgerie.]