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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.

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

Rearing and care of birds.

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

The cultivation of flowering plants.

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

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

The artificial cultivation of oysters.

Fish culture. See under Fish.

The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.

Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.

The raising of silkworms.

See Sylviculture.

A culture made by inoculating a solid medium, as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire. The growths are usually of characteristic form.