(v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.
(n.) A waterfall; a cascade.
(n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor;
might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of
exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to
persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity;
special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a
contract, or a term.
(n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power;
violence; coercion.
(n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval
combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament;
troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men
prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a
plantation.
(n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law,
upon persons or things; violence.
(n.) Validity; efficacy.
(n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to
change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more
generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation
between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical,
magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive
force; centrifugal force.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force
conviction on the mind.
(n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to
one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
(n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or
struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
(n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength
or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into,
through, out, etc.
(n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding;
to enforce.
(n.) 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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force
fruits.
(n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by
leading a suit of which he has none.
(n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by
soldiers; to man; to garrison.
(n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
(v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to
endeavor.
(v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to
hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
(v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
