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noun

Forester n.

One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

An inhabitant of a forest.

A forest tree. (R.)

(Zool.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

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"Forester" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the Free Foresters last summer. In passing, you seem to be a bit of a free forester yourself, dancing ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

... etc., etc. Yes, this is all bad enough, but there is a chance of returning. One can say, with something like confidence: "In seven years I shall see my old nest again, and my parents, and perhaps my sweetheart. I shall have seen the world, and will perhaps have some title to be appointed forester or gendarme." This is a comfort for reasonable people. But then, if you had the ill-luck to lose in the lottery, there was an end of you; often not one in a hundred returned. The idea that you were only going for a time ...

— The Conscript - A Story of the French war of 1813 • Emile Erckmann

... the creature closed his mouth, and looked wistfully up at him with almost human sympathy and intelligence—"would that we knew where are all that were once wont to go with us to the chase! But for them, I would be well content to be a bold forester all my days! Better so, than to be ever vexed and crossed in every design for the country's weal—distrusted above—betrayed beneath! Alack! alack! my noble father, why wert thou wrecked in ...

— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge

... shalt thou be here a forester, And thou shalt be with me for evermore A citizen of that ...

— Dante's Purgatory • Dante

... The head-forester of Montegnac was a former cavalry-sergeant in the Royal guard, born at Limoges, whom the Duc de Navarreins had sent to his estate at Montegnac to study its capabilities and value, in order that he might derive some profit from it. Jerome Colorat found nothing but waste land utterly ...

— The Village Rector • Honore de Balzac

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