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care; homage; worship. Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of. thecult or homage which is due to it. Shaftesbury.

Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]

A colter. See Colter.

Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.

Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.

Cultivable.

ion, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.

Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison.

Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator.

Of or pertaining to culture.

The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone.

Having no culture.