FORWARDER
FOR'WARDER, noun He that promotes, or advanced in progress.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FORWARDING
FOR'WARDING, participle present tense Advancing; promoting; aiding in progress; accelerating in growth; sending onwards; transmitting.
FORWARDLY
FOR'WARDLY, adverb Eagerly; hastily; quickly.
FORWARDNESS
FOR'WARDNESS, noun1. Cheerful readiness; promptness. It expresses more than willingness. We admire the forwardness of christians in propagating the gospel.2. Eagerness; ardor. I...
FORWASTE
FORWA'STE, verb transitive To waste; to desolate. [Not in use.]
FORWEARY
FORWE'ARY, verb transitive To dispirit. [Not in use.]
FORWEEP
FORWEE'P, verb intransitive To weep much.
FORWORD
FOR'WORD, noun [fore and word.] A promise. [Not in use.]
FOSS
FOSS, noun [Latin fossa; from fossus, fodio, to dig.]1. A ditch or moat; a word used in fortification.2. In anatomy, a kind of cavity in a bone, with a large aperture.
FOSSIL
FOS'SIL, adjective [Latin fossitis, from fodio, fossius, to dig.]1. Dug out of the earth; as fossil coal; fossil salt. The term fossil is now usually appropriated to those inorg...
FOSSIL-COPAL
FOSSIL-COPAL, noun Highgate resin; a resinous substance found in perforating the bed of blue clay at Highgate, near London. It appears to be a true vegetable gum or resin, partl...
FOSSILIST
FOS'SILIST, noun One who studies the nature and properties of fossils; one who is versed in the science of fossils.
FOSSILIZATION
FOSSILIZA'TION, noun The act or process of converting into a fossil or petrification.
FOSSILIZE
FOS'SILIZE, verb transitive To convert into a fossil; as, to fossilize bones or wood.FOS'SILIZE, verb intransitive To become or be changed into a fossil.
FOSSILIZED
FOS'SILIZED, participle passive Converted into a fossil.
FOSSILIZING
FOS'SILIZING, participle present tense Changing into a fossil.
FOSSILOGY
FOSSIL'OGY, noun [fossil, and Gr. discourse.]A discourse or treatise on fossils; also, the science of fossils.
FOSSROAD
FOSS'ROAD,FOSS'WAY, noun A Roman military way in England, leading from Totness through Exeter to Barton on the Humber; so called from the ditches on each side.
FOSSWAY
FOSS'WAY, n. A Roman military way in England, leading from Totness through Exeter to Barton on the Humber; so called from the ditches on each side.
FOSTER
FOS'TER, verb transitive1. To feed; to nourish; to support; to being up.Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.2. To cherish; to forward; to promote growth. The genial war...
FOSTER-BROTHER
FOS'TER-BROTHER, noun A male nursed as the same breast, or fed by the same nurse.
FOSTER-CHILD
FOS'TER-CHILD, noun A child nursed by a woman not the mother, or bred by a man not the father.
FOSTER-DAM
FOS'TER-DAM, noun A nurse; one that performs the office of a mother by giving food to a child.
FOSTER-EARTH
FOS'TER-EARTH, noun Earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil.
FOSTER-FATHER
FOS'TER-FATHER, noun One who takes the place of a father in feeding and educating a child.
FOSTER-MOTHER
FOS'TER-MOTHER, noun A nurse.
FOSTER-NURSE
FOS'TER-NURSE, noun A nurse.