1. (n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

2. (n.) An inhabitant of a forest.

3. (n.) A forest tree.

4. (n.) 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.

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