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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..

Ancient :: Ancient (a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle..

Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree..

Disboscation :: Disboscation (n.) Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.

Emboss :: Emboss (v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

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..

Disafforested :: Disafforested (imp. & p. p.) of Disaffores.

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..

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..

Greenwood :: Greenwood (n.) A forest as it appears is spring and summer.

Bush :: Bush (n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest..

Weald :: Weald (n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names..

Engrosser :: Engrosser (n.) One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.

Chestnut :: Chestnut (n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

Screen :: Screen (v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill..

Foliage :: Foliage (n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage..

Agistment :: Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests..

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..

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..

Horsefly :: Horsefly (n.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

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