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waldgrave Hist.|ˈwɔːldgreɪv| [ad. G. waldgraf, f. wald forest (see weald, wold) + graf count: see graf, grave n.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 ˈwaldgravine, the wife of a waldgrave. In recent Dicts. |