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Webster 1913 Edition

Forgery

For′ger-y

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Forgeries
(#)
.
[Cf. F.
forgerie
.]
1.
The act of forging metal into shape.
[Obs.]
Useless the
forgery

Of brazen shield and spear.
Milton.
2.
The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud;
as, the
forgery
of a bond
.
Bouvier.
3.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
These are the
forgeries
of jealously.
Shakespeare
Syn. –
Counterfeit
;
Forgery
.
Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity.
Abbott.

Webster 1828 Edition

Forgery

FORGERY

, 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 Gen. Washington, during the revolution, were forgeries.

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