Definition of forest

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Forest (n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated..

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Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc..
Chase :: Chase (v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace..
Walker :: Walker (n.) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
Forster :: Forster (n.) A forester.
Interlope :: Interlope (v. i.) To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.
Upas :: Upas (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas..
Reafforestation :: Reafforestation (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.
Monarch :: Monarch (n.) One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest..
Herbage :: Herbage (n.) The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.
Forestalling :: Forestalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forestal.
Enforest :: Enforest (v. t.) To turn into a forest.
Forestage :: Forestage (n.) A service paid by foresters to the king.
Sylvan :: Sylvan (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic..
Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers..
Swainship :: Swainmote (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury..
Forester :: Forester (n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
Disforest :: Disforest (v. t.) To disafforest.
Disafforested :: Disafforested (imp. & p. p.) of Disaffores.
Bloody Hand :: Bloody hand () A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison..
Verd :: Verd (n.) The right of pasturing animals in a forest.
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