Forgery

n.	1.	The act of forging metal into shape. 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.
	3.	That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. These are the forgeries of jealously. - Shak. The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. - Waterland.

Noun	1.	forgery - a copy that is represented as the original Synonyms: counterfeit, imitation
	2.	forgery - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

bad check, bad money, base coin, bogus money, canard, certified copy, cheat, clinquant, coinage, coining, concoction, copy, copying, counterfeit, counterfeit money, counterfeiting, dummy, ectype, emulation, extravaganza, fable, fabrication, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fakement, fakery, false money, falsification, fiction, figment, following, frame-up, fraud, fraudulence, green goods, hit-off, hoax, icon, image, imitation, impersonation, impostor, imposture, impression, invention, junk, kite, likeness, mimesis, mintage, mirroring, mock, myth, onomatopoeia, parody, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, phony, picture, pinchbeck, plagiarism, plagiary, portrait, put-on, put-up job, queer, repetition, representation, resemblance, rip-off, romance, rubber check, semblance, sham, shoddy, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, stamping, striking, swindle, takeoff, tinsel, whited sepulcher

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