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with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak.…

piece from a board. (b) To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment. " A large forest cut out into walks." Addison. (c) To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out work for another day. "Every man had cut out a place for himself." Addison. (d) To step in and take the place of; to supplant; as, to cut…

thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott.

ht; to reveal. How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown! Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. Pope.

unite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obs.] S. Butler.

; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

ischarge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance. Dr. T. Dwight.

Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

To forestall. [Obs.] Spenser.

A forester. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A forester. [Obs.] Spenser.

A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

A forest; a woody place. [Obs.] Drayton.

ich the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.…

An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope.

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.