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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Forth v.
 1. Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.
    Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth.   --Tyndale.
    From this time forth, I never will speak word.   --Shak.
    I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more.   --Strype.
 2. Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
 When winter past, and summer scarce begun,
 Invites them forth to labor in the sun.   --Dryden.
 3. Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
    I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.   --Shak.
 4. Throughly; from beginning to end. [Obs.]
 And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From.
 Forth of, Forth from, out of. [Obs.] --Shak.
 To bring forth. See under Bring.