forgen.[F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. soft, tender. Cf. Fabric.]1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.()In the quick forge and working house of thought. (Shak.)2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.()3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.()In the greater bodies the forge was easy. (Bacon.)American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. Raymond. -- Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan. -- Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. -- Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.()v. t.[F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.]1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.()Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. (Shak.)2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.()Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. (Locke.)Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. (Tennyson.)3. To coin.(Chaucer.)4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.()That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you. (Hudibras.)Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. (Macaulay.)()v. i.[See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]1. To commit forgery.()2. (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.(Totten.)And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. (De Quincey.)v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.()