Definition of forest

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Forest (a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.

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Reafforestation :: Reafforestation (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.
Sylvan :: Sylvan (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
Thwaite :: Thwaite (n.) Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart..
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..
Disafforested :: Disafforested (imp. & p. p.) of Disaffores.
Forester :: Forester (n.) An inhabitant of a forest.
Wald :: Wald (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
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..
Plant :: Plant (n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest..
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance..
Purlieu :: Purlieu (n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights..
Opening :: Opening (n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings..
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..
Wold :: Wold (n.) A wood; a forest.
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..
Lumberer :: Lumberer (n.) One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman..
Nemophilist :: Nemophilist (n.) One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
Disforestation :: Disforestation (n.) The act of clearing land of forests.
Sylvan :: Sylvan (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic..
Forestal :: Forestal (a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights..
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