Word Meanings - DISFOREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To disafforest. Fuller. 2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees.

Related words: (words related to DISFOREST)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• CLEAR-CUT
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• CLEARWING
  A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
• CLEARAGE
  The act of reforming anything; clearance.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• CLEAR-SHINING
  Shining brightly. Shak.
• CLEAR-SIGHTED
  Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
• CLEARSTORY; CLERESTORY
  The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
• CLEARING
  1. The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South. 2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation. A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. J. Burroughs. 3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• PERINUCLEAR
  Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
• CLEAR
  cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, broght, loud, distinct, renownwd; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. 1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and
• BINUCLEAR; BINUCLEATE
  Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.
• MULTINUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.
• CROSSTREES
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."