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Force

Force v. t. To stuff; to lard; to farce.
Force n. A waterfall; a cascade.
Force n. 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.
Force n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
Force n. 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.
Force n. Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
Force n. Validity; efficacy.
Force n. 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.
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.
Force n. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
Force n. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
Force n. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
Force n. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence;
with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
Force n. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
Force n. 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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
Force n. To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
Force n. To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
Force n. To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
Force v. i. To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
Force v. i. To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
Force v. i. To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Force pump A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
Force pump A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.
Forced imp. & p. p. of Force
Forced a. Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
Forceful a. Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
Forceless a. Having little or no force; feeble.
Forcemeat n. Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
Forcement n. The act of forcing; compulsion.
Forceps n. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
Forceps n. The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
Forcer n. One who, or that which, forces or drives.
Forcer n. The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
Forcer n. A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.

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