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noun

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.

(Eng. Law) 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.

verb

Forest v. t. To cover with trees or wood.

adjective

Forest adj. Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.

Forest fly. (Zool.)

(a)

One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the family Tabanidae, which attack both men and beasts. See Horse fly.

(b)

A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick.

Forest glade, a grassy space in a forest.

Forest laws, laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests.

Forest tree, a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree.

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Etymology of 'Forest'

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"Forest" Quotes from Famous Books

... and laughter they passed the opposite curb, I noticed a singular thing—one man who dropped out of the group silently as if unobserved by his companions. He seemed to make one step from the lighted street into the shadow, and was swallowed up in it as completely as if he had plunged into a forest. He had entered that very tract that ...

— The Other Side of the Door • Lucia Chamberlain

... cheapening apples, everything seems to have stood still from century to century. There you will surely see the mantilla worn as in Spain, while the smell of ships, whose masts every now and then you may see, a whole forest of them, in the harbour, the bells of the mules, the splendour of the most ancient sun, remind you only of old things, the long ways of the great sea, the roads and the deserts and the mountains, the joy that cometh with the morning, ...

— Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa • Edward Hutton

... a young eastern lad just out of preparatory school, goes west on his summer vacation to join a friend, Dick Leslie, a government forest ranger in Arizona. Ken, honest, loyal but hot-headed runs into plenty of excitement and trouble when he finds that a big lumber ...

— The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck - Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields • Edward Stratemeyer

... well marked, is probably embodied in the poetry of every language. Take the oak, for instance, and we find it always standing as a type of strength and endurance. I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from all our other forest-trees? All the rest of them shirk the work of resisting gravity; the oak alone defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs, so that their whole weight may tell,—and then stretches them out fifty or sixty ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

... tenth volume, it shows, as every number of the past has done, a steady growth in vigor. The acorn sprout has gradually to expand and shoot upward in the air and light before it becomes the majestic oak of the forest; but all the while it is growing, it is putting forth new beauties and fastening its roots deeply and strongly in the earth. GOLDEN DAYS is that young monarch of the "literary wood," and it well deserves ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various

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