n. An arrangement of metal or wood type, from which a page may be printed
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adj. First.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Former; first.
n. A Middle English spelling of form, still retained in English and Scotch usage among printers. See form, n., 6.
Word Usage
"But now adaies they make them large, deepe, glistering, and of the finest cloth or stuffes to bee gotten, reducing those habites to so proude and pontificall a forme, that they walke"