n.
  - a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth. 
▸historical an area, typically owned by the sovereign and partly wooded, kept for hunting and having its own laws.
 - a dense mass of vertical or tangled objects.
 
v.
 
[
usu. as adj. forested]
 plant with trees.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: via OFr. from late L. forestis (silva), lit. ‘(wood) outside’, from L. foris (see foreign).