Word Meanings - NEMOPHILIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.

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• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• FOREST
  A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
• FORESTAY
  A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• FORESTER
  A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester , which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. (more info) 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed
• FORESTALL
  To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention
• HAUNTER
  One who, or that which, haunts.
• FORESTRY
  The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
• FORESTAFF
  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C.
• SCENERY
  1. Assemblage of scenes; the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence. 2. Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards
• FORESTALLER
  One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.
• WOODSY
  Of or pertaining to the woods or forest. It is woodsy, and savors of trees. J. Burroughs.
• WOODSTONE
  A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.
• WOODSMAN
  A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.
• FORESTAL
  Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.
• CHAUNTERIE
  See CHAUCER
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
• REAFFORESTATION
  The act or process of converting again into a forest.
• REFORESTIZE
  To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
• REFOREST
  To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.
• BACKWOODSMAN
  A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.
• DEFOREST
  To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.
• REFORESTIZATION
  The act or process of reforestizing.
• REAFFOREST
  To convert again into the forest, as a region of country.
• DISFORESTATION
  The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.
• CHAUNTER
  1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. 2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens. 3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
• DISFOREST
  1. To disafforest. Fuller. 2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees.