Forth

FORTH, sb.1 N.I.1 An earthen fort or ‘rath.’
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FORTH, adv., prep. and sb.2 Var. dial. uses in Sc. and
Eng. Also in forms foath Cor.3; footh Cor.; furt Sh.I.;
furth Sc. (Jam.) Cum.1 Wm.; voäth e.Dev.; vooäth
Som.; vuoth Dor.1 1. adv. In comb. (1) Forth-and-back,
(a) backwards and forwards; (b) hind part before,
back to front; fig. contrary; (c) fig. inconstant, vacillating
and shuffling in manner; (2) Forth-coming, a legal term for
accounting for money, production of accounts, &c.; (3)
Forth-geng, the entertainment given at the departure of a bride
from her own or father's house; (4) Forth-hugged, brought out;
conveyed away; (5) Forth-less, worthless, useless; (6) Forth-man,
the man in charge of a pasture, who directs when the
cattle, &c., are to be driven forth; (7) Forth-night, an annual
merrymaking; (8) Forth on, in continuation, for an indefinite
period; (9) Forth-put, energy, promptitude, ‘gumption’; (10)
Forth-right, (a) forthwith; straightforward; also used attrib.;
(b) headlong, impulsive; see Foreright; (11) Forth-right bread,
bread made from entire or coarse-ground flour; (12) Forth-setter,
a publisher; an author; (13) Forth-shaw, to exhibit, show forth.
(1, a) Cor.3 Foath an back to town. (b) Cor.3 He's a regular
liar. You must take all he says foath an back. w.Cor. Common
(M.A.C.). (c) Cor.1 Cor.2; Cor.3 Can't rely on him ─ he's so often
foath an back. (2) Abd. He swore he would bring an action of
forthcoming against the whole crew, Shirrefs Poems (1790) 305.
(3) Ags. (Jam.) (4) n.Yks.2 (5) e.Dur.1 (6) Cum.1 (7) Cum.
Fwok up leàtt at neet... To git till o' t'furthneets, Dickinson
Cumbr. (1876) 239. (8) Suf.1 Come a month on liking, and if we
agree you may stay forth on. (9) w.Yks. He'll ne'er mak' nought
out ─ he's no forthput in him, N. & Q. (1861) 2nd S. xi. 117;
w.Yks.2 There's no forth-put in them. (10, a) Sc. The policy of
life, which deals now in making feints, now in thrusting with
forthright passes, Scott St. Ronan (1824) xxxvi; I should have
done as I was here bidden and gone forthright to the house,
Stevenson Catriona (1893) xx. (b) w.Som.1 s.v. Voreright. (11)
Cor.2 s.v. Vore-right; Cor.3 Now gen. called brown bread. (12)
Ayr. The beucks whilk hae Scotch charicters are sae muckle tane
tent o', when them that hae nane fa' unsocht for,... tho' they be
written by the same furthsetter, Edb. Mag. (Apr. 1821) 353 (Jam.).
(13) Fif. His brither laird owr-loup the wa', And, Alexander-like,
furthshaw Example in that strife, Tennant Papistry (1827) 177.
2. Forward, forwards.
n.Dev. The great wind which drove it back and forth, Chanter
Witch (1896) 98. Cor. And when I put et footh to har, Forfar
Poems (1885) 3.
Hence Forthert, adv. forward.
Abd. 'Tweish twa hillocks the poor lambie lies, And ay fell
forthert, as it shoope to rise, Ross Helenore (1768) 12, ed. 1812.
3. Out of doors, outside; away from home, abroad. Also
used fig., and esp. in phr. to go forth, to go from home.
Sh.I. For sic a wy ta come furt among Kirsin folk, Burgess
Lowra Biglan (1896) 17; Furt da rain wis tümin, BURGESS Rasmie
(1892) 83. ne.Sc. A comely clever lass, an' sae muckle thocht
o' baith at hame an' forth, Grant Keckleton, 129. Abd. Anes
she lay an ouk and langer Furth aneath a wreath o' snaw,
Skinner Poems (1809) 64. Kcd. Baith hame an' forth, on water
an' land,... Tam suffered abridgment aifter that, Grant Lays
(1884) 122. Gall. That is a little forth of my province, Crockett
Grey Man (1896) 209. Cum.1 When flax-spinning by the line (or
lint) wheel was in use, the young women would assemble in half
dozens at their neighbours' houses with their wheels, and spend
the evening in spinning and singing till bed time, when frequently
their sweethearts would be in attendance to conduct them home.
This custom was called ‘gangan forth.’ Wm. The practice of going
furth has been done away with... by the introduction of village
libraries, Gibson Leg. (1877) 8; We'd been furth that neet at mi
aunt's (B.K.). Der.1 ‘She has never been forth,’ abroad in the
world to get education. Obs. Som. To go vooäth, is to go out,
Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825). e.Dev. Ai shall up an' geu
voäth ta th' town, Pulman Sng. Sol. (1860) iii. 2.
4. Of a clock, watch, &c.: fast, in advance, before time.
w.Cor. The clock is footh (M.A.C.).
5. prep. ‘Forth’ from, outside of.
Sc. Furth the country (A.W.). Lth. Furth the cottar's fowre
wa's, Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 34.
6. sb. An exit, way out. Dor.1 Water 'ull have its vuoth, Gl.
7. Out of doors, the open air.
Abd. The muckle furth, the open air, Shirrefs Poems (1790)
Gl.; Aw was jist... lockin' my bits o' doories, an' seein' that
neen o'the creaturs wasna restin the furth, Alexander Johnny
Gibb (1871) xl; It wud be mair heid wark nor eesin' 's han'ies at
roch lawbour the furth, ALEXANDER Ain Flk. (1882) 191.