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  1.                 From 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. [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]

  2.                 From 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. [1913 Webster]

    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. [1913 Webster]

    2. In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. [1913 Webster]

    At least to try and teach the erring soul. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

    3. It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. [1913 Webster]

    When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

    4. If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

    As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

    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. [1913 Webster]