forestn.
/ˈfɒrᵻst/, U.S. /ˈfɔrəst/ 1. figurative and in extended use.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 263 A forrest of feathers. View more context for this quotation1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 36 Vpon these French our Fathers wan renowne, And with their swords we'll hewe yan Forrest downe.1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iv. ix. 150 London (that Forest of People).1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love i. i. 8 With a Forest of their Darts he strove.1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 74 Forests of no meaning spread the page In which all comprehension wanders lost.1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry iii. 70 A forest of spires sprang up.1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iv. xxvii. 475 A whole forest of verbal arguments.
a. An extensive tract of land covered with trees and undergrowth, sometimes intermingled with pasture. Also, the trees collectively of a ‘forest’.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land
wold786
frith?826
woodland869
woodc897
rough1332
foresta1375
firth?a1400
weald1544
bocage1644
parkland1649
bush1780
sylvanry1821
forestry1823
belting1844
rukh1856
treescape1885
bush1912
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun]
woodc825
frith?826
holtOE
wildwooda1122
scogha1400
holt-woodc1400
forest1730
stand1833
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3 In þat forest..þer woned a wel old cherl.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3608 Bath in feild and in forest.
c1440 Ipomydon 370 With youre houndis more and lesse, In the forest to take my grese.
a1631 J. Donne Paradoxes (1652) sig. E2 Tylting, Turnying, and riding through Forrests.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 23 To have acknowledged their victories with Crowns, a Forrest of Laurell would scarce have sufficed.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 141 The stooping forest pours A rustling shower of yet untimely leaves.
1799 H. T. Colebrooke in T. E. Colebrooke Life H. Colebrooke (1873) 410 The prevalence of forest renders Bejeygerh a very unwholesome spot.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 149 He was whisked away over prairies, and forests.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 196 The black pine forests on the slopes of the mountains.
b. In Great Britain, the name of several districts formerly covered with trees, but now brought more or less under cultivation, always with some proper name attached, as Ashdown, Ettrick, Sherwood, Wychwood Forest.
2. Law. A woodland district, usually belonging to the king, set apart for hunting wild beasts and game, etc. (cf. quots. 1598, 1628); having special laws and officers of its own.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun]
fieldOE
forest1297
seta1425
chasea1440
hunting-fieldc1680
hunting-ground1721
flying county1856
hunt1857
moor1860
the Shires1860
driving moor1873
beat1875
killing ground1877
flying country1883
killing field1915
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > forest or park
park1222
hainc1275
forest1297
firth?a1400
nether vert1598
haya1640
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 375 Þe nywe forest, Þat ys in Souþhamtessyre.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. iv. 28 In huntyng..On a day in þe Neu Forast.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxvii Confirmacon of ye Statutes of ye Forest.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest i. §1. f. 1 A Forrest is certen Territorie of wooddy grounds & fruitfull pastures, priuiledged for wild beasts and foules of Forrest, Chase and Warren, to rest and abide in, in the safe protection of the King, for his princely delight and pleasure.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. §378 A Forest and Chase are not but a Parke must bee inclosed.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 22 A Chase..may be in the hands of a Subject, which a Forest in its proper nature cannot be.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 414 The forests..having never been disposed of in the first distribution of lands, were therefore held to belong to the crown.
1883 F. Pollock Land Laws ii. 40 The presence of trees..is not required to make a forest in this sense. The great mark of it is the absence of enclosures.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun]
westerneOE
weste landOE
wastinea1175
westec1175
wastec1200
wildernc1200
wildernessc1200
wildernessc1230
warlottc1290
forestc1320
wastyc1325
deserta1398
wastern?a1400
wildnessa1513
the wilds of1600
vastness1605
vastacy1607
roughet1616
wild1637
wildland1686
bush1780
wastage1823
mesquite1834
wasteland1887
mulga1896
virgin bush1905
boondock1944
boonies1954
virgin land1955
c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 846 He wente into a forest wild Into desert fram alle men.
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Diiv In our lande is also a grete deserte or forest.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxix. 182 Therefore we haue named them Camomill of the Forest, or wildernesse.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος Proem. sig. B3v Away she betakes her self into the great and wide Forrest of the Sea.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Simple attributive.
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forest-administration n.
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1838 Penny Cycl. X. 359/2 The laws and regulations of forest administration.
forest-alley n.
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1849 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 35 In perspective brief, uncertain, Are the forest-alleys closed.
forest-bough n.
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1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 67 The Forest-Boughs..dance..to the playful Breeze.
forest-brother n.
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1823 F. D. Hemans Last Constantine xc, in Siege of Valencia 48 Mountain-storms, whose fury hath o'erthrown Its forest-brethren.
forest-craft n.
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1894 Academy 8 Sept. 175/3 The influence of German forest-craft is seen in every page.
forest-deep n.
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1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Queen Guinevere in Poems (new ed.) II. 206 In forest-deeps unseen.
forest fire n.
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1878 F. B. Hough Rep. Forestry I. 158 The frequent occurrence of forest-fires along railroad-lines.
1958 Spectator 8 Aug. 183/2 He was forced to intervene in the island to protect Turkish nationals, to prevent indirect aggression, and to put out a neighbouring forest fire.
forest-floor n.
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1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 233 Ere the black bear haunted Thy red forest-floor.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 10 Green..decay on forest-floors.
forest-folk n.
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1847 M. Howitt Ballads 125 The forest-folk they sing their songs.
forest-fruit n.
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1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 56 Trees their Forrest-fruit deny'd. View more context for this quotation
forest-glade n.
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1727 J. Thomson Summer 12 Along the Forest-Glade, The wild Deer trip.
forest-hearse n.
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1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 70 She..went into that dismal forest-hearse.
forest-house n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > hunting lodge > [noun]
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > hunting-lodge
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III 118 In a Lodge, or Forest-house.
forest-land n.
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1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ix. 79 Thir possessions..tak'n from them, one while as Forrest Land, another while as Crown-Land.
1805 King in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1915) 1st Ser. V. 586 Forest land: [land which] abounds with Grass and is the only Ground which is fit to Graze; according to the local distinction, the Grass is the discriminating Character and not the Trees, for by making use of the Former it is clearly understood as different from a Brush or Scrub.
1936 Discovery Apr. 107 A typical Finnish scene of water and forest-land.
1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iv. ii. 383 He headed into the forestlands of Dalarna.
forest-lawn n.
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1809 W. Wordsworth Advance—come Forth in Sonn. to Liberty The hunter train..Have roused her [Echo] from her..forest-lawn.
forest-leaf n.
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1727 J. Thomson Summer 61 And stirs the Forrest-Leaf without a Breath.
forest-life n.
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1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 165 This, the first day of our forest-life.
forest-lodge n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > hunting lodge > [noun]
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > hunting-lodge
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
1847 M. Howitt Ballads 147 My mother she loves that forest-lodge.
forest-lord n.
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1859 E. Cook Poems (new ed.) 301 Where the dark forest-lords tangle their boughs.
forest-matter n.
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1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 202 Illegal actions in Forest matters.
forest-nymph n.
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1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 25 A Forest-Nymph, and one of chaste Dianas charge.
forest-path n.
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1821 F. D. Hemans Vespers of Palermo ii. ii. 26 Oh! the forest-paths are dim and wild.
forest pathology n.
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1944 Forestry Terminol. (Soc. Amer. Foresters) 3/2 Forest pathology borders on a number of related fields, such as forestry, plant pathology, mycology.
forest reserve n.
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1882 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 400 Preserving certain portions..as Government forest reserves.
1945 Craig (Colorado) Empire-Courier 25 July 2/4 There's forest reserve country up there that's just waiting for you.
forest-ridge n.
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1822 G. Mantell Fossils S. Downs 17 The Forest-ridge constitutes the north-eastern extremity of the county.
forest-rights n.
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1863 J. R. Wise New Forest iv. 46 Cattle may..be turned out, by those who have Forest rights.
forest-road n.
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1847 M. Howitt Ballads 140 That every soul from Elverslie The forest-roads might take.
forest-shade n.
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1709 A. Pope Summer in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 735 Chast Diana haunts the Forest Shade.
forest-sheriff n.
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1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. Introd. 63 The Forest-Sheriff's lonely chace.
forest-side n.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 990 In his wey it happed him to ryde..under a forest syde.
14.. Sir Beues 3360 (MS. M.) Tyl they cam to a forest syde.
forest-skirt n.
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1845 G. Murray Islaford 44 Breezy jauntings..On forest-skirt.
forest-sport n.
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1853 G. P. R. James Agnes Sorel I. xii. 253 Well accustomed to forest-sports.
forest-steading n.
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1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 18 The ‘forest-steading of Galashiels’ is first mentioned in history shortly after the beginning of the 15th century.
forest stream n.
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1847 M. Howitt Ballads 127 The forest-streams..with a talking sound went by.
forest-top n.
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1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II ciii. 170 Its growing green..waved in forest-tops.
forest-walk n.
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1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. i. 115 The forrest walks are wide and spatious.
forest-wood n.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. i. 23 You haue..felld my forrest woods . View more context for this quotation
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forest-like adj.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Forestier, woodie, forrest-like.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 242 The more beautiful for being shut in with a forest-like closeness.
b. esp. with names of living beings, with sense ‘haunting or inhabiting a forest’.
forest-bear n.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. ii. 13 Whose hand is that the Forrest Beare doth licke? View more context for this quotation
forest-beast n.
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1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) civ. iii Darkness He makes the Earth to shroud, When Forest~Beasts securely stray.
forest-bee n.
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1885 J. S. Stallybrass tr. V. Hehn Wanderings Plants & Animals 463 This keeping of forest-bees was the business of the bee-master.
forest-boar n.
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1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xvii. 195 Like hounds That spring upon a wounded forest-boar.
forest-boy n.
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1847 M. Howitt Ballads 123 He did not run about with the forest-boys at play.
forest-dove n.
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1828 F. D. Hemans Sicilian Captive in Rec. Woman 177 Bowers wherein the forest-dove her nest untroubled weaves.
forest-pony n.
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1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Nov. 413 As ragged as forest-ponies in the month of March.
c. Objective.
(a)
forest-feller n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman
wood-hewerc1000
wooderc1050
hagger1294
wood-hagger1294
feller1422
woodman1426
faller1614
wood-maker1616
forest-feller1618
axeman1671
holt-felstera1678
stocker1686
bayman1715
logger1734
wood-cutter1758
lumberer1809
lumbermana1817
shantyman1824
chopper1827
splitter1841
bushman1846
mahogany cutter1850
piner1871
bush-faller1882
lumberjack1888
bushwhacker1898
home guard1903
Jack1910
gyppo1912
timber-getter1912
timberjack1916
timber beast1919
1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks 68 Let thy forest-feller cut thee all Thy chamber fuel.
(b)
forest-felling adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [adjective] > felling
fellable1580
forest-felling1841
arboricidal1866
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 53 Among the Northland Sovereigns..I find some..Forest-felling Kings.
d. Instrumental, locative, and originative.
forest-belted adj.
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1875 H. W. Longfellow Pandora vi Have the mountains..the forest-belted, Scattered their arms abroad.
forest-born adj.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 30 This Boy is Forrest borne . View more context for this quotation
1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 238 The walls..once resounded with the accents of the forest-born Demosthenes.
1841 H. S. Foote Texas & Texans I. 120 It was in fact perfectly natural..that ‘forest-born’ orators [should have come forward] to rouse..the spirit of resistance.
forest-bosomed adj.
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a1822 P. B. Shelley Prince Athanase ii. ii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 253 Like wind upon some forest-bosomed lake.
forest-bound adj.
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1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. xiii. 244 The sequestered and forest-bound region in which Adair resided.
forest-bred adj.
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1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool xiii, in Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 276/2 A specimen of art such as the forest-bred lad had never happened to see before.
forest-clad adj.
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1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 208 Its [the Mississippi's] sources are..in forest-clad plateaux.
forest-crowned adj.
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1727 J. Thomson Summer 33 On the Sunless Side Of a romantic Mountain, Forrest-crown'd.
forest-dweller n.
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1866 E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. 14 The shepherd, the hunter, the forest-dweller, and the sea-rover.
forest-dwelling adj.
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1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 202 Wild or forest-dwelling creatures.
forest-frowning adj.
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1796 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in Poems Var. Subj. 11 Some hill, whose forest-frowning side Waves o'er the murmurs of his calmer tide.
forest-rustling adj.
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1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 198 From the shore..And forest-rustling mountain, comes a voice.
C2. Special combinations.† forest-bill n. Obsolete a woodman's bill-hook.† forest-cloth n. Obsolete ? some woollen fabric.† forest-fever n. Obsolete jungle-fever.† forest mahogany n. Australian Obsolete any of several eucalypts, esp. the red mahogany, Eucalyptus resinifera. † forest-white n. Obsolete a kind of cloth.† forest-work n. Obsolete a decorative representation of sylvan scenery.
forest-bed n. Geology a stratum originating from a primæval forest.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > organic remains or fossils
moorlog1655
coal plant1695
leaf bed1697
plant bed1784
oyster bed1833
stem-bed1853
forest-bed1861
starfish bed1861
fish-bed1869
insect-bed1893
lagerstätte1972
1840 C. Lyell in London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 3rd Ser. 16 377 A general subsidence..must have taken place..in order to explain the submergence and burial of the trees of which the stools are found in situ; and this forest bed could not have been brought up again..to the level of low water, without a subsequent upheaval.]
1861 Geologist 4 70 The dark sandy clay, known as the Forest bed, from the abundance..of stems and trunks of trees found in and on it.
1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) 207 Forest-bed, the name given by English geologists to a stratum which underlies the Glacial Drift at Cromer in Norfolk.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook
wood-billc725
billc1000
falsartc1380
wood-hookc1440
falchion1483
forest-bill1488
bush-scythe1552
brush-bill1588
cutting-bill1601
bill-hook1611
hook-bill1613
bush-bill1631
hack1846
snagger1847
slasher1858
bush-hook1860
slash-hook1891
1488 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1882) I. 311 Cum quodam le Forest byll..in capite percussit.
1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Forest-bill or Wood-bill an instrument for lopping trees, &c.
forest-brown adj. the trade designation of a colour used for ladies' dresses.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > dark brown
burnetc1200
fusk1599
fusky1610
chocolate-coloured1736
brunneous1815
chocolate1819
ustulate1826
scorched1832
fuscescent1881
forest-brown1892
burnt-coloured1896
Jacobean1918
mocha1977
1892 Daily News 29 Sept. 6/2 A tea-gown of forest brown velvet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > for clothing
puke1465
russel1488
capping-woollen1555
wadmalc1682
forest-cloth1769
vadmal1851
Petersham cloth1853
Victoria1891
1769 Dublin Mercury 16–19 Sept. 2/2 All kinds of broad cloths, forrest cloths, beaver druggets.
forest-court n. (see quot.).
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > forest-courts
swanimote1189
wood-speech1222
justice seat1607
wood-motea1610
Eyre of the Forest1622
wood-plea court1672
speech1687
forest-court1768
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. vi. 71 The forest courts, instituted for the government of the king's forests..and for the punishment of all injuries done to the king's deer [etc.].
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers
fever hectica1398
emitrichie1398
hectic1398
etisie1527
emphysode fever1547
frenzy-fever1613
purple fever1623
prunella1656
marcid fever1666
remittent1693
feveret1712
rheumatic fever1726
milk fever1739
stationary fever1742
febricula1746
milky fever1747
camp-disease1753
camp-fever1753
sun fever1765
recurrent fever1768
rose fever1782
tooth-fever1788
sensitive fever1794
forest-fever1799
white leg1801
hill-fever1804
Walcheren fever1810
Mediterranean fever1816
malignant1825
relapsing fever1828
rose cold1831
date fever1836
rose catarrh1845
Walcheren ague1847
mountain fever1849
mill fever1850
Malta fever1863
bilge-fever1867
Oroya fever1873
hyperpyrexia1875
famine-fever1876
East Coast fever1881
spirillum fevera1883
kala azar1883
black water1884
febricule1887
urine fever1888
undulant fever1896
rabbit fever1898
rat bite fever1910
Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911
sandfly fever1911
tularaemia1921
sodoku1926
brucellosis1930
Rift Valley fever1931
Zika1952
Lassa fever1970
Marburg1983
1799 H. T. Colebrooke in T. E. Colebrooke Life H. Colebrooke (1873) 427 This disorder did not assume the worst shape of what is denominated the forest fever.
forest-fly n. a fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > group Pupipara or Nymphipara > family Hippoboscidae > member of family Hippobosca
forest-fly1658
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 934 The greater..is the Forrest-fly.
1773 G. White Let. 8 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 156 A species of them [sc. Hippoboscæ] is familiar to horsemen in the south of England under the name of forest-fly.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 867/2 The forest-fly is..troublesome to horses in the summer.
forest-green adj. and n. applied by Scott to the ‘Lincoln green’, said in the ballads to be the special costume of Robin Hood and his men; hence (?), used as the commercial name of a shade of green in dress-material.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > dark green
steel-greena1560
bottle-green1785
corbeau1810
forest-green1810
rifle green1829
spinach-green1845
pine green1892
army green1897
malachite1900
seaweed-green1937
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > dark green
steel-greena1560
moss green1705
bottle1784
corbeau1810
forest-green1810
rifle green1829
spinach-green1845
hunter's green1872
moss1897
army green1908
jungle green1946
loden1964
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 159 As gay [is] the forest-green.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iii. 51 His dress was a tunic of forest green.
1892 Daily News 16 Sept. 3/3 A dark forest-green gown is lined with tartan silk in brown and green.
forest-kangaroo n. see forester n. 3b.
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1852 L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania I. 244 The Great or Forest Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus).
forest-laws n. laws relating to royal forests, enacted by William I and other Norman kings.
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society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > forest-laws
forest-laws1598
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest vi. f. 34 Those that were vnlearned in the Forrest lawes.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 103 No part of the royal despotism was so galling..as these forest-laws.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 10 The most valuable and best-known species of Eucalyptus are those called..‘Red or Forest Mahogany’.
1889 F. von Müller Eucalyptogr. I, at Eucalyptus resinifera It bears the colonial name of Red or Forest-Mahogany, which appellations are very inaptly given, inasmuch as the wood bears no real similarity to that of the true West Indian Mahogany.
forest marble n. (see quot.).
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1858 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 14 100 The Oolitic rocks..may be thus tabulated..Portland Oolite [is] Portlandian... Cornbrash, Forest Marble, Bradford Clay, Great Oolite, Stones-field Slate, Fuller's Earth [are] Bathonian.
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 170 Forest Marble, an argillaceous laminated shelly limestone..forming one of the upper portions of the Lower Oolite. It derives its name from Whichwood Forest in Oxfordshire.
forest-oak n. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > Australian or New Zealand oak
oak1789
she-oak1792
river oak1817
shingle-oak1818
New Zealand oak1835
swamp-oak1837
he-oak1844
river she-oak1872
forest-oak1882
bull oak1884
desert oak1896
1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 294 Casuarina equisetifolia and C. torulosa..In Australia they are known by the names of..She Oak, Forest Oak [etc.].
forest-peat n. wood-peat ( Cent. Dict.).
forest red gum n. Eucalyptus tereticornis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
1904 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora New S. Wales II. 1 ‘Forest Red Gum’... This species is..usually found in open forest country, hence I recommend the adoption of the prefix ‘Forest’ to Red Gum, the name by which it is very commonly known, with the view to save confusion.
1931 E. Maxwell Afforestation in Southern Lands lxiv. 273 This other Red Gum, the Forest Red Gum, will grow under conditions that the River Red Gum will not.
1957 Forest Trees Austral. (Commonw. Forestry & Timber Bur.) 86 Forest red gum..extends beyond the shores of Australia to the drier parts of Papua.
forest-school n. a school for giving instruction and training in the management of forests.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > school of
forest-school1888
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Apr. 5/1 The difference between skilled and unskilled management would more than repay the cost of a forest school.
forest shrew n. a name used for several African shrews of the genus Myosorex.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Soricidae > other types of
marsh shrew1829
mole shrew1857
forest shrew1958
1958 G. Durrell Encounters with Animals i. 25 If anything lives to eat, this forest shrew does.
forest-stone n. (see quot.).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > others
tarso1662
warming-stone1668
blue cap1686
forest-stone1789
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 10 [A] sort of stone, called by the workmen sand, or forest-stone..composed of a small roundish crystalline grit, cemented together by a brown, terrene, ferruginous matter.
forest-tree n. any tree of large growth, fitted to be a constituent part of a forest.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habitat > [noun] > forest tree
sylvan1632
forester1691
forest-tree1712
dryad1823
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 145 The Trees hitherto mention'd, are..called Forest-Trees.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxvii. 210 The rest move slowly forth with me, In shelter of the forest tree.
forest-wards adv. towards the forest.
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1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek vi. 139 She looked out, forest-wards, for long before she tried to rest.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough
russeta1300
cogware1389
molton1545
forest-white1551
penistone1551
pinwhite1604
duroy1619
duffel1649
long ell1706
duffel cloth1787
flushing1812
bull's wool1850
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6. §1 All Clothes commonly called Pennystones or Forest Whites.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > others
quathriganc1175
starc1384
yoke1415
sheafc1420
arrow1548
thunder-dart1569
memento mori1598
quadriga1600
Triton1601
anchor1621
chimera1634
forest-work1647
Bacchanaliaa1680
Bacchanal1753
subject1781
harp1785
mask1790
arrowhead1808
gorgoneion1842
Amazonomachia1845
Amazonomachy1893
mythograph1893
physicomorph1895
horns of consecration1901
double image1939
motion study1977
1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. i. xli All forrest-work is in this tapestry.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xix. 314 Finely painted in forest-work and figures.
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forestv.
/ˈfɒrᵻst/, U.S. /ˈfɔrəst/ transitive.
a. To place in a forest.Apparently an isolated use.
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1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 67 O Haunter chaste Of river sides, and woods,..Where..Art thou now forested?
b. To plant with trees, convert into a forest.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > plant with trees
setc1290
arbust1623
co-afforest1655
wood1807
retimber1828
reafforest1834
reforest1836
afforest1843
forest1865
reforestize1890
tree1891
1865 Q. Rev. July 18 A comparatively small surface of this vast range of wild country has been forested.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 4/2 Ground that has not been forested.
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