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To forestall; to anticipitate. Having This not to be stall'd by my report. Massinger.

wers, showers of yellow pollen, resembling sulphur in appearance, often carried from pine forests by the wind to a great distance. -- Sulphur trioxide (Chem.), a white crystalline solid, SO3, obtained by oxidation of sulphur dioxide. It dissolves in water with a hissing noise and the production of heat, forming sulphu…

Free from danger; safe; secure. Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that we are sure enough. Shak. -- To be sure, or Be sure, certainly; without doubt; as, Shall you do To be sure I shall. -- To make sure. (a) To make certain; to secure so that there can be no failure of the purpose or object.…

A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] Blackstone.

Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.

Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey.

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.

place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect. Wyclif. He pricketh through a fair forest, Therein is many a wild beast. Chaucer. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Gen. ix. 7. Therein our letters do not well agree. Shak.

frequently recurring. The people were gathered thick together. Luke xi. 29. Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood. Dryden.

he thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. Addison.

Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Woods or forest; wooden land. [Western U.S.]

An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night. [Obs.]

orphose. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester. Sir W. Scott.

Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

To plant under; specif. (Forestry),

Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. Addison.

Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest.

A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.