Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORGE, v.t.

1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
2. To make by any means. Names that the schools forged, and put into the mouths of scholars. Locke.
3. To make falsely; to falsify; to counterfeit; to make in the likeness of something else; as, to forge coin; to forge a bill of exchange or a receipt.