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).