forest

8 definitions found

forest - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Forest \For"est\, n. [OF. forest, F. for[^e]t, LL. forestis,
     also, forestus, forestum, foresta, prop., open ground
     reserved for the chase, fr. L. foris, foras, out of doors,
     abroad. See Foreign.]
     1. 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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     2. (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. --Burrill.
        [1913 Webster]

  Forest \For"est\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
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     Forest fly. (Zool.)
     (a) One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the
         family Tabanid[ae], 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. --Thomson.
  
     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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  Forest \For"est\, v. t.
     To cover with trees or wood.
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forest - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  forest
      n 1: the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
           [syn: forest, wood, woods]
      2: land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest,
         woodland, timberland, timber]
      v 1: establish a forest on previously unforested land; "afforest
           the mountains" [syn: afforest, forest]

forest - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Forest
  Heb. ya'ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all
  the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer.
  5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic
  forest of Ephraim (2 Sam. 18:6, 8; Josh. 17:15, 18), which is
  probably the same as the wood of Ephratah (Ps. 132:6), some part
  of the great forest of Gilead. It was in this forest that
  Absalom was slain by Joab. David withdrew to the forest of
  Hareth in the mountains of Judah to avoid the fury of Saul (1
  Sam. 22:5). We read also of the forest of Bethel (2 Kings 2:23,
  24), and of that which the Israelites passed in their pursuit of
  the Philistines (1 Sam. 14:25), and of the forest of the cedars
  of Lebanon (1 Kings 4:33; 2 Kings 19:23; Hos. 14:5, 6).
  
    "The house of the forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 7:2; 10:17; 2
  Chr. 9:16) was probably Solomon's armoury, and was so called
  because the wood of its many pillars came from Lebanon, and they
  had the appearance of a forest. (See BAALBEC.)
  
    Heb. horesh, denoting a thicket of trees, underwood, jungle,
  bushes, or trees entangled, and therefore affording a safe
  hiding-place. place. This word is rendered "forest" only in 2
  Chr. 27:4. It is also rendered "wood", the "wood" in the
  "wilderness of Ziph," in which david concealed himself (1 Sam.
  23:15), which lay south-east of Hebron. In Isa. 17:19 this word
  is in Authorized Version rendered incorrectly "bough."
  
    Heb. pardes, meaning an enclosed garden or plantation. Asaph
  is (Neh. 2:8) called the "keeper of the king's forest." The same
  Hebrew word is used Eccl. 2:5, where it is rendered in the
  plural "orchards" (R.V., "parks"), and Cant. 4: 13, rendered
  "orchard" (R.V. marg., "a paradise").
  
    "The forest of the vintage" (Zech. 11:2, "inaccessible
  forest," or R.V. "strong forest") is probably a figurative
  allusion to Jerusalem, or the verse may simply point to the
  devastation of the region referred to.
  
    The forest is an image of unfruitfulness as contrasted with a
  cultivated field (Isa. 29:17; 32:15; Jer. 26:18; Hos. 2:12).
  Isaiah (10:19, 33, 34) likens the Assyrian host under
  Sennacherib (q.v.) to the trees of some huge forest, to be
  suddenly cut down by an unseen stroke.

forest - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Forest, IN
    Zip code(s): 46039
  Forest, LA (village, FIPS 26350)
    Location: 32.79242 N, 91.41216 W
    Population (1990): 263 (109 housing units)
    Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Forest, MS (city, FIPS 25340)
    Location: 32.35689 N, 89.47397 W
    Population (1990): 5060 (1968 housing units)
    Area: 22.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 39074
  Forest, OH (village, FIPS 27636)
    Location: 40.80310 N, 83.51189 W
    Population (1990): 1594 (628 housing units)
    Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Forest, TX
    Zip code(s): 75925
  Forest, VA (CDP, FIPS 28688)
    Location: 37.37354 N, 79.27834 W
    Population (1990): 5624 (2287 housing units)
    Area: 35.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 24551

forest - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FOREST. By the English law, a forest is a circuit of ground properly under 
  the king's protection, for the peaceable living and abiding of beasts of 
  hunting and the chase, and distinguished not only by having bounds and 
  privileges, but also by having courts and offices. 12 do. 22. The 
  signification of forest in the United States is the popular one of an 
  extensive piece of woodland. Vide Purlieu. 
  
  

forest - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "forest":
     afforestation, afforestational, arboreous, arboretum, back country,
     backwoods, bed, boondock, boondocks, borderland, bosky, braky,
     broadcast, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, bushy, chase,
     climax forest, cloud forest, coppice, copse, copsy, dendrologic,
     dendrology, dibble, disseminate, drill, forest land,
     forest preserve, forestal, forested, forestry, forests,
     fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, grove,
     hanger, hinterland, implant, index forest, inseminate, jungle,
     jungles, national forest, outback, outpost, palmetto barrens, park,
     park forest, pine barrens, plant, pot, primeval forest,
     protection forest, put in, rain forest, reforest, reforestation,
     reforestational, reset, retimber, scatter seed, scrub, scrubby,
     scrubland, seed, seed down, selection forest, seminate, set,
     shrubby, shrubland, silvicultural, silviculture, sow,
     sow broadcast, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest,
     sylvan, the bush, thicket, timber, timbered, timberland, timbers,
     transplant, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country,
     virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, weald,
     wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, wooded, woodland,
     woodlands, woods, woodsy, woody