v. i. To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Forgive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. &unr_; soft, tender. Cf. Fabric. ] 1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the greater bodies the forge was easy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel. ] 1. To commit forgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And off she [ a ship ] forged without a shock. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Forged 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To coin. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge, v. t., 4.
Syn. -- bad. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; -- of metal objects. Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Forgemen A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Forgeries [ Cf. F. forgerie. ] 1. The act of forging metal into shape. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Useless the forgery
Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are the forgeries of jealously. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. Waterland.

Syn. -- Counterfeit; Forgery. Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]