forloret (forlor)

t. An erroneous form for * for lose, forlese, after forlorn. Thus fell the trees, with noise the deserts roar; The beasts their caves, the birds their nests for lore . Fairfax. forloret, a . See forlorn . forlorn (for-lôrn), a . and n. [ forlorn , forloren, for lore , forloren (= D. verloren = G. verloren = Dan. forloren ), pp. of forleósan , lose: see forlese .] I. a. 1. Lost; deserted; forsaken; abandoned. Is all his force forlorne , and all his glory donne? Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 35, Relating then how long this soil had lain forlorn . Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 101. Shak., Tit. And., ii. 3. Hence-2. Without help or succor; helple ; wretched; miserable. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. The Saxons, taking Advantage of his (Cadwalladar sl Absence, came over in Swarms, and dispo e ed the forlorn Britains of all they had, and divided the L'and amongst themselves. Baker , Chronicles, p. 5. : The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary forlorn I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me le forlorn . Words worth, Sonnets, xxxiii. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was for lorn in the extreme. Pre scott . 3. Small; despicable: in a ludicrous sense. He was so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight were invincible. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 2335 Each form in the moonlight dim, Of rock or of tree, is seen of him. 4. Deprived; bereft; destitute. He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn . Cole ridge, Ancient Mariner, vii. Forlorn boyst. [Tr. of F. enfants perdus; D. verloren kinderen.) Same as forlorn hope. Forlorn hope. [D. verloren hoop, lit. a lost troop (D. hoop, a troop, E. heap ), but a ociated in E. with hopel, expectation.] A detachment of men appointed to lead in an a ault, to storm a counterscarp, enter a breach, or perform other service attended with uncommon peril. A confused rabble and medley of all sorts of nations, who at the forlorn hope.. might, if they did no other good, yet with receiving many a wound in their bodies, Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 765. =Syn. Friendle , miserable, comfortle , disconsolate, and turn the edge of the enemy's sword. woebegone, abject, pitiable. II. n. 1. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person. That Henry, sole po e or of my love, Is, of a king, become a banish'd man, And fore'd to live in Scotland a forlorn . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 3. 3. Attractive appearance; shapeline ; beauty. [Archaic.] Isa. liii. 2. He hath no form nor comeline . 4t. A costume; a special dre : as, a blue silk form. There comes out of the chayre-roo me Mrs. Stewart in a most lovely form , with her hair all about her eares, having her picture taking there. Pepys , Diary, II. 148. 5. A mold, pattern, or model; something to give shape, or on or after which things are fashioned: as, a hatters' or a milliners' form; a form for jelly.-6. In printing, an a emblage of types secured in a chase for stereotyping, or of either types or plates for printing. A form may consist of one page or of many pages. For stereotyping, no particular order of arrangement is nece ary; for printing, the pages are arranged in such order that in folding the printed sheet they will fall in regular sequence. In book-printing, before the general use of steam-pre es, two forms (see inner and outer form, below) were usually The squadron nearest to your eye Is his Forlorn of infantry; Bowmen of unrelenting minds. Cotton (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 219). Our forlorn of horse marched within a mile of where the enemy was drawn up. Cromwell . side; now a single form frequently comprises a whole sheet, the paper being turned end for end for printing the second side. Large newspapers, however, still require two forms. In this sense often spelled forme in Great Britain. 7. In mil it. eng in., same as gabion-form. See gabion.-8. In general, arrangement of or relationship between the parts of anything, as distinguished from the parts themselves: opposed And poor, proud Byron, sad as grave, And salt as life; forlornly brave, And quiv'ring with the dart he drave. Mrs. Browning, Vision of Poets.