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Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

To render difficult; to difficilitate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

With difficulty. Cowper.

Difficulty. [R.] Golding.

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition;…

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellec…

Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

The cultivation of flowering plants.

One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

One who cultivates a garden.

Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.

The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.

One who practices horticulture.

Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized. Germany then, says Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent cities. Burton. His style is diffuse and incult. M. W. Shelley.

Uncultivated. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Want of cultivation. [Obs.] Berington.

Want or neglect of cultivation or culture. [Obs.] Feltham.

Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. [R.]