forcing

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1.To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor. [1913 Webster]

2.To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. [1913 Webster]

3.To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. [1913 Webster]

To force their monarch and insult the court.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

I should have forced thee soon wish other arms.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

To force a spotless virgin's chastity.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock. [1913 Webster]

5.To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. [1913 Webster]

It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

To force the tyrant from his seat by war.— Sahk.[1913 Webster]

Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

6.To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

What can the church force more?— J. Webster.[1913 Webster]

7.To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. [1913 Webster]

High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

8.(Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. [1913 Webster]

9.To provide with forces; to re["e]nforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

10.To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

For me, I force not argument a straw.— Shak.

Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel. [1913 Webster]

1.The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition. [1913 Webster]

2.(Gardening) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. [1913 Webster]

Forcing bed or Forcing pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed.

Forcing engine, a fire engine.

Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together.

Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc.

Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle.

Forcing pump. See Force pump (b) . [1913 Webster]