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adverb

Forwards, Forward adv. Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; opposed to backward.

adjective

Forward adj.

Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.

Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; too hasty. "Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do." "Nor do we find him forward to be sounded."

Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years. "I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness."

Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring. "The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow."

noun

Forward n. An agreement; a covenant; a promise. (Obs.) "Tell us a tale anon, as forward is."

verb

Forward v. t. (past & past part. forwarded; pres. part. forwarding)

To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.

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"Forward" Quotes from Famous Books

... and no answer was given. Then the king rushed forward alone, but before he could reach the spot where Niall was standing he was seized by a dozen chiefs and ...

— Irish Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy

... flame-colored oaks and blood-spotted azaleas projecting on all sides from the shelving rocks resemble to a startling degree galleries of blazing candelabra. Night dispels this illusion, it is so very deep and mysterious here. The solemn procession of the stars silently passes over us. I see Taurus pressing forward, and anon Orion climbs on hand and knee over the mountain ...

— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... Gauls.(3) And, as if this were not enough, immediately after the battle on the Trasimene lake, the cavalry of the army of Ariminum under Gaius Centenius, 4000 strong, which Gnaeus Servilius had sent forward for the temporary support of his colleague while he himself advanced by slow marches, was likewise surrounded by the Phoenician army, and partly slain, partly made prisoners. All Etruria was lost, and Hannibal might ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... shock of actual physical suffering. Organized public opinion, when compared with this unnameable and resistless silent force of human instinct is like a small body of the police in the presence of a vast sullen mob. If the mob is determined and throws capable leaders forward, the police either desert to the mob or disappear. If the mob does not understand itself and produces no leaders the police rule it. It is fair to speak of this tacit common instinct as ignorant, because the world ...

— On the Vice of Novel Reading. - Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. • Young E. Allison

... the look-out in the forward watch-tower, and got his routine gesture. I rang the corridor bells, and the normal signals ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various

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