Forbidder

One who, or that which, forbids. Forbidding, p . a . Repelling approach; disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; as, a forbidding countenance, a forbidding manner. -Offensive; repulsive; odious; abhorrent. "Tragedy was made forbidding and horrible." - Hill . Forbid'dingly, adv . In a forbidding manner. Forbin, CLAUDE, Chevalier de, a distinguished French naval commander, B. in 1656. In 1685 he accompanied the French amba ador to Siam, where he gained the favor of the king, then desirous of introducing into his kingdom the Christian religion and the civilization the West. Forbin remained two years, as high admiral, general, ., to his Siamese majesty; and on his return to Europe he signalized himself on several occasions. In 1708 he was intrusted with the command of the squadron which was to convey the Pretender to Scotland, but owing to the vigilance of Admiral Byng, he could not effect a landing. D. 1733. Forbore', imp . of FORBEAR, q. v. Forborne', pp . of FORBEAR, q. v. For'bush, in N. Carolina, a village of Yadkin co., abt. 40 m. N. by W. of Salisbury. Force, ( fors ,) n. [Fr. force, from Lat. fortis , strong, allied to Lat. vis; Gr. his, hinos . strength.] Strength; vigor; might; energy. "A ship, which hath struck sail, dotn run, By force of that force which before it won." - Donne. -That which causes an operation or moral effect. "No definitions are of force enough to destroy constant experience."-Locke. -Violence; compuision; coercion. "They hold the crown by force and not oy right." - Shaks. -Cogency; virtue; efficacy; validity; as, the force of an argument, or a term. - Power for war; troops; armament; an army or navy; --usually in the plural. "Look on my forces with a gracious eye." - Shaks. (Mech. and Phys.) Any cause which is capable of producing motion in matter, or of stopping or altering its direction when produced. Every visible particle of matter is under the influence of several forces, exerted upon it both by distant and by adjacent particles, and upon which it acts in return; for the action of one body on another is always accompanied by a reaction of the latter upon the former, of the same intensity, in an opposite direction. The motions observed in some bodies are ent state of rest in others is dependent. According to and dependent upon one common principle; but the correlation, or nece ary mutual dependence and commutability of each of the physical forces upon and into any other, or into all, and of all, reciprocally into each other, was, at its original enunciation, the particular theory of Mr. Grove. His doctrine is, "that the various affections of matter which constitute the main objects of experimental physics, - namely, heat, light, electricity, magnetism, chemical affinity, and motion, are all correlative, or have a reciprocal dependence; that neither, taken abstractedly, can be said to be the e ential cause of the others, but that either may produce or be converted into any of the others: thus, heat may, mediately or immediately, produce electricity; electricity may produce heat; and so of the rest, each merging itself, as the force it produces becomes developed; and that the same must hold good of other forces, it being an irresistible inference from observed phenomena, that a force cannot originate otherwise than by devolution from some preëxisting force or forces." - Ref. On the Correlation of Physical Forces, by W. R. Grove. Force, v . a. To use or exert strength or power upon or against; to compel; to constrain; to cause to do, or to forbear, by the exercise of a power not resistible; to overpower; to impel; as, to force slaves to work, to force the enemy to submit. - To cause to move; to draw or push by main strength. "It struck so fast, so deeply buried lay, That scarce the victor forced the steel away."-Dryden. -To enforce; to urge; to pre ; to compel by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction. - To obtain by force; to storm; to a ault; to take by violence. 'At rides might as well have forced the sky." - Waller. To ravish. "Force her, -I like it not." - Dryden. owing to these forces, and upon their balance the appar- _ To overstrain; to distort; as, forced conceits. - To hasten Sir John Herschel, the origin of the idea of force must the growth of plants, fruits, ., by artificial means. be referred to the consciousne of each individual. He - [Corrupted from FARCE, q. v.] To stuff. - Shaks. says: "We are conscious of a power to move our own limbs, and by their intervention, other bodies; and this effect is the result of a certain inexplicable proce , which we are aware of, by which we exert force ; and even when such exertion produces no visible effect, (as when we pre our two hands violently together, so as To use force or violence. -v. n. Forced, p . a . Affected; overstrained; unnatural. For'cedly, adv . In a forced manner. or condition of being forced. For'cedne , n . The state or Force'ful, a. Impelled by violence; driven with force; acting with power; violent; impetuous. Forcefully, adv . Violent; impetuously. Force'le , a. Feeble; impotent. just to oppose each other's effort,) we still perceive, by the fatigue and exhaustion, and by the impo ibility of main- taining the effort long, that something is going on with- Force'meat, n. [Fr. farce , stuffing, and Eng. meat.] in us, of which the mind is the agent, and the will the determining cause." In the case of F. exerted by the right hand, and met by an equal force from the left, the two, acting in opposite directions, exactly neutralize each other, and may be said to be in equilibrio , and the effect is called pre ure. As this force is found to have its proximate seat in the muscles of man and other animals, it is called muscular or animal force. This force can be communicated to inanimate matter, as when a stone is projected from the hand. Muscular force may also be concentrated in the same ma by continued action, as when a stone, by means of a sling, is continuously acted upon by the same arm, it will at length be projected with an intensity of action capable of producing very violent effects. Force transferred to moving ma es of matter is called mechanical force, and by multiplying the quantity of matter in a body by its velocity, we arrive at its momentum, or the quantity of force which it is capable of exerting upon other bodies opposed to it. The investigation of the laws of motion constitutes the province of Dynamics. In mechanics, the term decomposition of forces signifies the same thing as resolution of forces. Any force may be decomposed or resolved into a number of forces, and the original force will be equal to the resultant of those forces. Thus, if the given force be represented by the diagonal of a parallelogram, it can be resolved or decomposed into two forces of like intensity and direction, represented by the two sides of the parallelogram. Any one exerting muscular or animal force is soon made conscious that it may be opposed by other forces appertaining to inanimate matter. In lifting a lump of metal, stone, or other heavy substance from the ground, an opposing force is experienced, which is called weight or gravity . On pre ing with the arm on a strong spring, another opposing force is observed, called elasticity . Some forces cause ma es of matter to approach and others to recede from each other, retaining them in their second position against an opposing force; the former are called forces of attraction, and the latter of repulsion ; thus, gravity is a force of attraction, and elasticity a force of repulsion. In electricity and magnetism the forces of attraction and repulsion are also shown. Polar forces are those which are conceived to act in opposite directions at the extremities of the axes of molecules or of ma es of matter. The forces mentioned above are usually termed external forces, for they act upon matter at sensible distances; but there are others which act only upon its constituent molecules at insensible distances: these are frequently called internal or molecular forces; they include homogeneous attraction or cohesion, the universal antagonist of which is the repulsive force of heat. (See HEAT.) Another attractive force is that of heterogeneous affinity, by which a piece of metal or gla is wetted when dipped into water. Heterogeneous attraction is seen in its highest degree in chemical affinity, an inquiry into the laws of which force constitutes the chemist's peculiar province. (See AFFINITY.) The correlation of the physical forces is a very important principle in natural philosophy, which about 50 years ago was particularly enunciated by Mr. W. B. Grove, the inventor of the voltaic battery which goes by his name. Many philosophers had previously a erted that all the forces of nature were intimately connected, See FARCE. Forcene', a. [Fr.] ( Her.) Said of a horse when rearing, or standing on his hinder legs.