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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Forked a.
 1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
    A serpent seen, with forked tongue.   --Shak.
 2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
 Cross forked Her., a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; -- called also cross double fitché. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points.
 Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
 -- Fork*ed*ly adv. -- Fork*ed*ness, n.
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