Definition of forest

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Forest (n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated..

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Forester :: Forester (n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
Arrentation :: Arrentation () A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent..
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..
Agistor :: Agistor (n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker..
Forester :: Forester (n.) An inhabitant of a forest.
Lumberer :: Lumberer (n.) One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman..
Agist :: Agist (v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same..
Nemophily :: Nemophily (n.) Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods.
Reforestize :: Reforestize (v. t.) To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
Wold :: Wold (n.) A wood; a forest.
Unfrequented :: Unfrequented (a.) Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest..
Silva :: Silva (n.) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively..
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..
Fraxinus :: Fraxinus (n.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees..
Wald :: Wald (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
Verd :: Verd (n.) The right of pasturing animals in 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..
Nemophilist :: Nemophilist (n.) One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
Forester :: Forester (n.) A forest tree.
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