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ake deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property.

principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step. This boy is forest-born, And hath been tutored in the rudiments of many desperate studies. Shak. There he shall first lay down the rudiments Of his great warfare. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

ss an opinion; to make answer; to reply. You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge. Shak. To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies Milton.

rm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy. As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. Milton. Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. W. Irwing.

The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

r; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill. They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high comands. Macaulay.

A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, co…

The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.

The science treating of the life of trees in the forest.

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak.

Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up.

Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

ced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest. W. Howitt.

To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.] And loved in forests wild to space. Spenser.

Producing, or abounding with, spices. In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew. Dryden.

volve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis. Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together. Longfellow. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. G. W. Cable.

The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer. Wharton.

A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.