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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Glade :: Glade (n.) An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
Woodsy :: Woodsy (a.) Of or pertaining to the woods or forest.
Wildgrave :: Wildgrave (n.) A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave..
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..
Lumberer :: Lumberer (n.) One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman..
Sylvine :: Sylviculturist (n.) One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business..
Hylaeosaurus :: Hylaeosaurus (n.) A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines..
Windfall :: Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc..
Weald :: Weald (n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names..
Forester :: Forester (n.) An inhabitant of a forest.
Murmur :: Murmur (v. i.) To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest..
Root :: Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike..
Vert :: Vert (n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer..
Disforestation :: Disforestation (n.) The act of clearing land of forests.
Quercitron :: Quercitron (n.) The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas..
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate..
Forster :: Forster (n.) A forester.
Bail :: Bail (n.) A certain limit within a forest.
Disforest :: Disforest (v. t.) To disafforest.
Scotale :: Scotale (n.) The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure..
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