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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
and so forth
    adv 1: continuing in the same way [syn: and so forth, and so
           on, etcetera, etc.]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the
            sixteenth of the Acts forth.          --Tyndale.
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            From this time forth, I never will speak word.
                                                  --Shak.
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            I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say
            forth; I said I was taught no more.   --Strype.
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   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.
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            When winter past, and summer scarce begun,
            Invites them forth to labor in the sun. --Dryden.
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   3. Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
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            I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. --Shak.
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   4. Throughly; from beginning to end. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
And \And\, conj. [AS. and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda, OHG.
   anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if,
   Ante-.]
   1. A particle which expresses the relation of connection or
      addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a
      clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
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   Note: (a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are
         women and women," that is, two very different sorts of
         women. (b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of
         which is modificatory of the other, are connected by
         and; as, "the tediousness and process of my travel,"
         that is, the tedious process, etc.; "thy fair and
         outward character," that is, thy outwardly fair
         character, --Schmidt's Shak. Lex.
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   2. In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to,
      especially after try, come, go.
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            At least to try and teach the erring soul. --Milton.
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   3. It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
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            When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak.
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   4. If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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            As they will set an house on fire, and it were but
            to roast their eggs.                  --Bacon.
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   And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things;
      and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc.
      (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.
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