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Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. [R.] Burke.

of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.

In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.

southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. As the mind opens, and its functions spread. Pope.

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.

small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck. -- Gang cultivator, Gang plow, a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time. -- Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (be…

A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.

Horticulture. [Obs.]

A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.

d breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

rms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.

Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.