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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Forth \Forth\, v.[AS. for[eth], fr. for akin to D. voort, G. fort [root]78. See Fore, For, and cf. Afford, Further, adv.]

1.Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. [1913 Webster]

Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth.— Tyndale.[1913 Webster]
From this time forth, I never will speak word.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more.— Strype.[1913 Webster]

2.Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. [1913 Webster]

When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

3.Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. [1913 Webster]

I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.Throughly; from beginning to end. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From.

Forth of, Forth from, out of. [Obs.] --Shak.

To bring forth. See under Bring. [1913 Webster]

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