Hist. [ad. G. waldgraf, f. wald forest (see WEALD, WOLD) + graf count: see GRAF, GRAVE sb.4] In mediæval Germany, an officer having jurisdiction over a royal forest. (On the lower Rhine, the title was hereditary in certain families of the higher nobility.)
Hence Waldgravine, the wife of a waldgrave.
In recent Dicts.
