Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Forester \For"est*er\, n. [F. forestier, LL. forestarius.]
   1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an
      officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

   2. An inhabitant of a forest. --Wordsworth.

   3. A forest tree. [R.] --Evelyn.

   4. (Zo["o]l.) 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.