FORESTER

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

An inhabitant of a forest. Wordsworth.

3.
n.

A forest tree. [R.] Evelyn.

4.
n.

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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