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FOR'WARD, adv. L. versus directed to the forepart. Forwards is also used, but it is a corruption.

Toward a part or place before or in front onward progressively opposed to backward. Go forward move forward. He ran backward and forward.

In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.

FOR'WARD, a.

1. Near or at the forepart in advance of something else as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet the forward horse in a team.

2. Ready prompt strongly inclined.

Only they would that we should remember the poor the same which I also was forward to do. Galatians 2 .

3. Ardent eager earnest violent.

Or lead the forward youth to noble war.

4. Bold confident less reserved or modest than is proper in an sense as, the boy is too forward for his years.

5. Advanced beyond the usual degree advanced for the season. The grass or the grain is forward, or forward for the season we have a forward spring.

6. Quick hasty too ready. Be not forward to speak in public. Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.

7. Anterior fore.

Let us take the instant by the forward top.

8. Advanced not behindhand.

FOR'WARD,

1. To advance to help onward to promote as, to forward a good design.

2. To accelerate to quicken to hasten as, to forward the growth of a plant to forward one in improvement.

3. To send forward to send towards the place of destination to transmit as, to forward a letter or dispatches.