Forth (?), v.[AS. forð, fr. for akin to D. voort, G. fort √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.

"Lucas was Pauls companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth." Tyndale.

From this time forth, I never will speak word. Shak.

I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more. Strype.

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.

When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. Dryden.

3. Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

I have no mind of feasting forth to- night. Shak.

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

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.

Forth , prep. Forth from; out of. [Archaic]

Some forth their cabins peep. Donne.

Forth , n. [OE., a ford. ? 78. See Frith.] A way; a passage or ford. [Obs.] Todd.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913