Forcing
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Forcing - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
FORCING, ppr.
1. Compelling; impelling; driving; storming; ravishing.
2. Causing to ripen before the natural season, as fruit; or causing to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree.
3. Fining wine by a speedy process.
FORCING, n.
1. In gardening, the art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits, at an earlier season than the natural one, by artificial heat.
2. The operation of fining wines by a speedy process.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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