boscage

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BOSC'AGE, noun [Eng.bush.] 1. Wood; under-wood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also, a thicket. 2. In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which is yielded by bushes and trees. 3. With painters, a landscape, representing thickets of wood.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

More founding-era words: liberty · virtue · republic · justice · providence · commerce · militia · arms · prudence · establishment · religion · usurpation · tyranny · citizen · unalienable · sovereign