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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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Tineman :: Tineman (n.) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

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..

Stall :: Stall (v. t.) To forestall; to anticipitate. Havin.

Landscape :: Landscape (n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc..

Disforestation :: Disforestation (n.) The act of clearing land of forests.

Plant :: Plant (n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest..

Reafforestation :: Reafforestation (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.

Rata :: Rata (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs..

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..

Sylviculturist :: Sylviculture (n.) The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

Underbrush :: Underbrush (n.) Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth..

Forstall :: Forstall (v. t.) To forestall.

Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc..

Thin :: Thin (superl.) Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin..

Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate..

Walker :: Walker (n.) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.

Chiminage :: Chiminage (n.) A toll for passage through a forest.

Wildgrave :: Wildgrave (n.) A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave..

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..