ppl. a. [f. FOREST sb. or v. + -ED.] a. Converted into forest. rare. b. Furnished or abounding with forest, covered with large trees, thickly wooded.
a. 1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., ii. 27.
| Which euery day bewaile that deed so full of dred | |
| Whereby shee (now so proud) became first Forrested. |
1885. Pall Mall G., 11 March, 4/2. On forested ground the gillies usually put their feet in a grouse nest, when found.
b. 1796. A. Averell, Diary, in Mem., vii. (1848), 149. Our approach was by the finely forested park of Lord Kenmare, which, from its extent, variety of hill and dale, beautiful plantations, and its abounding in lawns, rivulets, grottos and arbours is indeed a princely place.
1859. Cornwallis, New World, I. 114. In the opposite direction we overlooked the dark forested ridges and deep intervening hollows of the Bendigo gold field.
1884. E. Ingersoll, From the Fraser to the Columbia, in Harper’s Mag., LXVIII. May, 882. Olympia has almost nothing to live upon beyond the crumbs that fall from the government tables, except the custom she derives from the Chehalis Valley, which lies west of her, since the more adjacent district is heavily forested, and its sandy soil is of small worth while so much superior land is available.
transf. 1863. J. A. Symonds, in Biog. (1895), I. 278. The gymnastic was trying to the head, especially on the return, when the whole descent, forested with spires, was seen naked beneath us.
