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ity or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak.

The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.

The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.

One who leads a rural life. Coventry.

The quality or state of being rural.

To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.

In a rural manner; as in the country.

The quality or state of being rural.

Having two legs. Hooker.

Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.

Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. [R.] "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.

Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

Same as Macrurous.

Situated in front of the leg or thigh; as, the precrural glands of the horse.

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

ce, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.