Force

fors, n. Strength or energy of body or mind; power to persuade, convince, or impose obligation; compulsory power; strength for war; a body of combatants. (Law.) Violence; validity; efficacy. (Physics.) Any action between 2 bodies tending to change any physical relation between them. — v.*. [forced (forst), forcing.] To constrain to do, or to forbear, by exertion of power not resistible; to impre by force to do violence to, esp. to ravish, violate; to obtain by strength, capture by a ault; to impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main sun, cube, full moon, cow, oil linger r; FORE strength; to exert to the utmost, strain, produce by unnatural effort; to provide with forces, reeniorca garrison. [OF.; fortia, strength, f L. fortis, strong; firm, fort, fortitude.'] — In force, or of force. Of unimpaired cacy; valid; of full virtue; not suspended or reversed. — For'cer, n. One who, or that which, forces or drives; esp. the solid piston of a pump. — For'cible, -sT-bl, a. Po e ing force, efficiency, or energy; marked by exce ive violence; using force against opposition obtained by compulsion; powerful; efficacious"; potent; weighty; cogent. — For'- cibly, adv. — Force'- or For'cingpump, n. A kind of pump used =! to throw water to a distance, or "*= force onward by direct action of „ the piston. Forcing-pump.