Forge

·vt To commit forgery.

II. Forge ·noun To Coin.

III. Forge ·vt To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

IV. Forge ·noun The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.

V. Forge ·noun To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

VI. Forge ·noun To form or shape out in any way; to Produce; to Frame; to Invent.

VII. Forge ·noun The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

VIII. Forge ·noun To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to Fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

IX. Forge ·vt 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.

X. Forge ·noun 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.