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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Wood :: Wood (n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
Emboss :: Emboss (v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
Sylvan :: Sylvan (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
Forest :: Forest (a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
Royalty :: Royalty (n.) A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property..
Underbrush :: Underbrush (n.) Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth..
Afforest :: Afforest (v. t.) To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country..
Foliage :: Foliage (n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage..
Forstall :: Forstall (v. t.) To forestall.
Haggler :: Haggler (n.) One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.
Ancient :: Ancient (a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle..
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..
Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..
Radiometer :: Radiometer (n.) A forestaff.
Waldgrave :: Waldgrave (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper..
Wold :: Wold (n.) A wood; a forest.
Glade :: Glade (n.) An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
Savage :: Savage (a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness..
Wildgrave :: Wildgrave (n.) A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave..
Swainship :: Swainmote (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury..
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