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force (s) navales, sea forces;
de penetration, (art.) penetrating, perforating
power;
plan dcs s, force plan;
prendre de , to force, to assault;
prendre une ville de, d, ouverte, (mil.) to cany
a town by storm;
de projection (d'une arme d feu), (ball.) pro-
jectile, shooting, power;
publique, (mil.) in France, all the organizations
that may be called upon to preserve
order at home, and to repel a foreign enemy,
(hence) the army, navy, gendarmerie, custom-house
personnel, and the police, both
rural and urban; (more particularly) the
gendarmerie, (and in war) all troops, etc., on
provost duty;
d de rames, by pulling hard;
de support, bearing power, capacity;
de traction, traction, tractive, power;
tractive, v. de traction;
tube de , (elec.) tube of force;
vive, vis viva, kinetic energy;
de vive , by main strength.
lorcf, a., forced, hard, severe (of weather); sprung,
strained (of a mast, etc.); (mil.) forced (of a
march);
marche e, (mil.) forced march;
travaux s, penal servitude; hard labor.
forcement, m., (art., sm. a.) (act, means, of)
forcing (projectiles to take the grooves); (art.)
compression system of taking grooves; difference
between maximum diameter of rotating
band and diameter of bore measured from
bottom of grooves;
d , (mach.) by forcing (of assemblages, etc.);
par affaissement, v. par compression;
ceintured, de, , (art.) rifling band;
par compression, (art.) forcing projectiles
to grooves by compression;
couronne de , (sm. a.) rifling band;
par exces de calibre, (sm. a.) forcing obtained
by making diameter of bullet greater than that
of the bore;
par expansion, (art., sm. a.) forcing by expansion;
par inertie, v. par compression;
au maillet, (sm. a., obs.) system in which
bullet was splayed out by striking with a
mallet on iron ramrod;
systemed , (art.) compression system.
forcer, v. a., to force, strain; to work; to compel;
to break open or through; to wrench, to bend;
(mil.) to overcome, storm;
sur les avirons, to pull hard;
le blocus, to force, run, a blockade;
un cheval, to override a horse;
la consigne, v. s. v. consigne;
lefer, (fenc.) to engage the adversary's blade
strongly;
la main,
d la main, (man.) of a horse, to
refuse to obey, to force the bit, to bolt;
une, la, marche, (mil.) to make a forced
march;
une passe, (nav.) to force a channel, to run by;
un poste, etc., (mil.) to force or carry a post
(a defile, passage, etc.);
de, des, rames, v. sur les avirons;
te , (art., sm. a.) to take the grooves.
forces, f. pi., shears (e. g., tailor's, tinmen's);
faire les , (man.) to open the mouth wide
instead of backing (of a horse that his rider is
trying to back).
forcettes, f. pi., small shears; masting sheers.
forceur, m.,
de blocus, blockade runner.
forcite, f., (expl.) forcite;
antigrisouteuse, fire-damp forcite;
gelatine, a mixture of nitroglycerin and
soluble nitrocellulose.
forer, v. a., to bore, to drill, to pierce, to perforate;
(art.) to bore (a gun);
bane d , boring bench;
instrument to,
, borer;
machined , boring machine.
forerie, 1., boring house, shop; act of boring; boring
machine; (art.) gun-boring machine; gun
lathe;
bane de , boring bench;
horizontal, horizontal drilling machine;
verticale, vertical drilling machine.
foret, m., borer, drill, boring
instrument; twisted bit;
americain, twist drill;
bit; boring tool,
anglais, centrifugal drill;
d arqon, breast drill;
d bois, de charpentier, auger;
d canon, borer, boring bit;
d cuiller, shell auger;
d langue d' aspic, flat drill;
d langue de carpe, first bit in gun boring,
rough borer;
d main, hand drill;
mi-rond, half-round drill;
d rochet, ratchet drill, brace;
russe, (art.) annular borer;
tors, twist drill;
torse, twisted bit or borer.
forSt, f., forest, forest land, woodland;
sauvage, trackless forest; one without paths
or roads.
foreur, m., borer (workman).
foreuse, f., (mach.) drilling machine.
forfait, m., contract, job;
d , by the job; by contract;
acheter (vendre) d . to buy (sell) a job lot;
faire un , to contract, make a contract for
anything.
forge, f., forge; iron works; smith's forge; blacksmith's
shop, smithy; (art.) battery forge;
d'affinerie, (met.) bloomery, finery;
d I'anglaise. (met.) rolling mill;
brut de , rough-forged;
de campagne, (art.) traveling forge; battery
forge; field forge;
fine , smith's coal;
fixe, de garnison, (art.) garrison forge
(as opposed to a field forge);
fourgon- , (Fr. cav.) wagon forge, forming
part of the cavalry regimental train (one to
each squadron);
de marechal-ferrant, farrier's forge;
mener un cheval d la , (fan.) to take a horse
tg the blacksmith;
de montagne, (art.) mountain forge;
operation de grosse -
, (met.) the working of
steel or of iron in large masses;
piece de , forging;
portative, hand forge, portable forge;
roulante, (Fr. a.) the forge in use by the
companies of the train (road forge);
stable, (art.) permanent forge (in a siege
park);
venir de , to be forged at the same time with
the main body or piece (said of small parts,
e. g., front-sight mass); to be integral with;
venu de , forged on (as opposed
to inserted
or let in); integral with;
volante, portable forge.
forg^, p. p., forged; wrought;
d chaud (froid), hot (cold) forged;
fer , wrought iron.
forgeable, a., forgeable, malleable.
forgeage, m., (met.) forging, operation of forging.
forger, v. a., to forge, to hammer, to weld, to forge
on; (hipp.) to overreach, (strictly) to forge;
action de , (hipp.) forging, clicking;
d chaud (froid), (met.) to forge hot (cold);
d la mecanique, (met.) to work, shape, forge,
by machinery (as opposed to shaping, etc., by
hand);
pressed , (met.) forging press.
forgerie, f., smithing, smithery.
forgeron, m., blacksmith.
forgeur, m., blacksmith;
de canons de fusil, (sm. a.) barrel forger;
cannonier , v. de canons defusil.
forgeuse, f.. < americaine, (mach.) forging
machine (so called in France because of origin);
Brown & Sharpe forging press.
forgls, m., wire iron (of which wire is to be made).
forjet, m.. (cons.) projection (out of line, out of
plumb).
forjeter, v. a., (cows.) to jut out, bulge, project;
to be out of line, out of plumb.
forjeture, f., v. forjet.
format, m., siz,e (of books, of paper);
in-8, etc., octavo, etc.