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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Opening :: Opening (n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings..
Woodsman :: Woodsman (n.) A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest..
Lumberer :: Lumberer (n.) One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman..
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind..
Ward :: Ward (n.) A division of a forest.
Bush :: Bush (n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest..
Border :: Border (v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest..
Chiminage :: Chiminage (n.) A toll for passage through a forest.
Forestalling :: Forestalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forestal.
Forstall :: Forstall (v. t.) To forestall.
Woodman :: Woodman (n.) One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.
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..
Forestal :: Forestal (a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights..
Disafforest :: Disafforest (v. t.) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.
Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..
Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree..
Verderor :: Verderor (n.) An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses..
Curtail Dog :: Curtail dog () A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting..
Leafy :: Leafy (superl) Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest..
Sylvan :: Sylvan (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
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