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Forester
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
2. An inhabitant of a forest. Wordsworth.
3. A forest tree. [R.] Evelyn.
4. 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.