<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing.</li><li>The production of a spurious work that is claimed to be genuine, as a coin, a painting, or the like.</li><li>Something, as a coin, a work of art, or a writing, produced by forgery.</li><li>An act of producing something forged.</li><li>Invention; artifice (Archaic).</li></ul>