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Relating to agriculture and rural affairs.

pinions. Golden age. (a) The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of manners in rural employments, followed by the silver, bronze, and iron ages. Dryden. (b) (Roman Literature) The best part (B. C. 81 -- A. D. 14) of the classical period of Latinity; the time when Cicero, Cæsar, Virgil, etc., wrote. Hence: (c…

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden.

century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

t's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.

A chief magistrate in rural districts. He was replaced in 1827 by "resident magistrates."

Not lofty or sublime; humble. These rural poems, and their lowly strain. Dryden.

Same as Macrura, Macrural, etc.

A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.

To get upon; to ascend; to climb. Shall we mount again the rural throne Dryden.

Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.

A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.

In a pastoral or rural manner.

Rustic, rural. Spenser.

ed; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.

rating or the state of being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

ment of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively. Spenser. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. [R.]