Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Forgery

Forgery , noun

[Compare French forgerie.]

1.
The act of forging metal into shape. [Obsolete]
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
The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. — Waterland