Forge

n.	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. Catalan forge (Metal.) See under Catalan. - Raymond. Forge cinder the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. Forge rolls 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.	1.	To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. [imp. & p. p. Forged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Forging .] 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.
	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.	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. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. - De Quincey.
v. t.	1.	(Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Noun	1.	forge - furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
	2.	forge - a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering Synonyms: smithy
Verb	1.	forge - create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" Synonyms: hammer
	2.	forge - make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" Synonyms: counterfeit, fake
	3.	forge - come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" Synonyms: devise, excogitate, invent, contrive, formulate
	4.	forge - move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead"
	5.	forge - move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy Synonyms: spirt, spurt
	6.	forge - make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the riceballs carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" Synonyms: shape, mould, mold, form, work
	7.	forge - make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" Synonyms: fashion

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