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One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.

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

Not cultivated; rude; illiterate. [Obs.]

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

An inferior or subordinate faculty.

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

Of or pertaining to viticulture.

The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.

One engaged in viticulture.

competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of Engla…

ting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.] Johnson.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.

Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle.

accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise. Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.

The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness…