Word Meanings - FORESTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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 to watch a forest and preserve the game. 2. An inhabitant of a forest. Wordsworth. 3. A forest tree. Evelyn.
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- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - INSECTATOR
A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey. - GROWLER
The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - GROWL
To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay. - EIGHTFOLD
Eight times a quantity. - CHARGEANT
Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer. - ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - GENERABILITY
Capability of being generated. Johnstone. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - GENERA
See GENUS - CHARGEABLE
1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - EIGHTEEN
Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds. - GENERANT
Generative; producing; esp. , - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - EIGHT
An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn. - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - FREIGHT
1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - SLEIGHTLY
Cunningly. Huloet. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - UNREGENERACY
The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance.