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The breeding of special stocks or races.

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

Cultivation on the earth; agriculture. [R.] -- Ter`ra*cul"tur*al, a. [R.]

Want of culture. "Idleness, ill husbandry . . . unculture." Bp. Hall.

The cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine; viticulture.

The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas…

Agriculture. [R.]

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

bubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures.

Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon.

ed by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the pr…

choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.

A person destitute of culture. M. Arnold.

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton.

t, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.