·noun Validity; efficacy.
II. Force ·noun A waterfall; a cascade.
III. Force ·noun To allow the force of; to Value; to care for.
IV. Force ·vi To be of force, importance, or weight; to Matter.
V. Force ·noun To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
VI. Force ·noun Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
VII. Force ·noun To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to Enforce.
VIII. Force ·noun To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
IX. Force ·noun Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
X. Force ·vt To Stuff; to Lard; to Farce.
XI. Force ·vi To use violence; to make violent effort; to Strive; to Endeavor.
XII. Force ·noun To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
XIII. Force ·noun To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, ·etc., by main strength or violence;
— with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, ·etc.
XIV. Force ·noun To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to Violate; to commit rape upon.
XV. Force ·noun To provide with forces; to Reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to Man; to Garrison.
XVI. Force ·vi To make a difficult matter of anything; to Labor; to Hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to Regard.
XVII. Force ·noun 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.
XVIII. Force ·noun 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.
XIX. Force ·noun 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.
XX. Force ·noun 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.
XXI. Force ·noun 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.