Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORG-ER-Y, n.

1. The act of forging or working metal into shape. In this sense rarely or never now used.
2. The act of falsifying; the crime of counterfeiting; as, the forgery of coin, or of bank notes, or of a bond. Forgery may consist in counterfeiting a writing, or in setting a false name to it, to the prejudice of another person.
3. That which is forged or counterfeited. Certain letters, purporting to be written by General Washington, during the revolution, were forgeries.