Definition of forest

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Forest (n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own..

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Reforestization :: Reforestization (n.) The act or process of reforestizing.
Leafy :: Leafy (superl) Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest..
Forestry :: Forestry (n.) The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
Disafforesting :: Disafforesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disaffores.
Forestal :: Forestal (a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights..
Pinery :: Pinery (n.) A pine forest; a grove of pines.
Annihilate :: Annihilate (v. t.) To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees..
Nymph :: Nymph (n.) A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters..
Ranger :: Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc..
Afforest :: Afforest (v. t.) To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country..
Waldgrave :: Waldgrave (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper..
Lumberer :: Lumberer (n.) One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman..
Reafforestation :: Reafforestation (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.
Swore :: Swordtail (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees..
Forestick :: Forestick (n.) Front stick of a hearth fire.
Untraveled :: Untraveled (a.) Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest..
Afforestation :: Afforestation (n.) The act of converting into forest or woodland.
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..
Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..
Sylvan :: Sylvan (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
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