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n. [ L., fr. ager field + cultor cultivator. ] An agriculturist; a farmer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Agricultural ant (Zool.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice. [1913 Webster]

n. An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agricultura; ager field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See Acre and 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agriculture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apis bee + E. culture. ] Rearing of bees for their honey and wax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
Syn. -- beekeeper, apiarist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to aquiculture. aquacultural methods
Syn. -- aquicultural, hydroponic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water. [ PJC ]

a. Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arbor tree + cultura. See Culture. ] The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cultivates trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To auscultate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ausculcatio, fr. auscultare to listen, fr. a dim. of auris, orig. ausis, ear. See Auricle, and cf. Scout, n. ] 1. The act of listening or hearkening to. Hickes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices auscultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to auscultation. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. avis bird + cultura culture. ] (Zool.) Rearing and care of birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinis hair + cultura. ] Relating to the growth of hair. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. dealing with or comparing two or more cultures; as, a cross-cultural survey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. [ F. culte, L. cultus care, culture, fr. colere to cultivate. Cf. Cultus. ] 1. Attentive care; homage; worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it. Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A system of religious belief and worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A system of intense religious veneration of a particular person, idea, or object, especially one considered spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies; as, the Moonie cult. [ PJC ]

4. The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or 3). [ PJC ]

5. A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea or thing without religious associations, or the people holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the cult of personality in totalitarian societies. [ PJC ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. Rubbish; débris; refuse. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. ] A colter. See Colter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cultirostres. ] (Zool.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. culter colter of a plow, knife + rostrum bill. ] (Zool.) A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cultivable. ] Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Cultivable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cultivated p. pr. & vb. n. Cultivating ] [ LL. cultivatus, p. p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p. p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. Colony. ] 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. [ 1913 Webster ]

I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.
Syn. -- civilized, cultured, genteel, polite. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. used for raising crops; -- of land or soil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. cultivation. ] 1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cultivateur. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In a broader signification it includes any complex implement for pulverizing or stirring the surface of the soil, as harrows, grubbers, horse hoes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cultratus knife-shaped, fromculter, cultri, knife. ] (Bot. & Zool.) Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. culter, cultri, knife + -form. ] (Bot. & Zool.) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. culter, cultri, knife + vorare to devour. ] Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to culture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. culture, L. cultura, fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf. Colony. ] 1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Pepe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions. (b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation. The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals or plants in artificial media is called tissue culture. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

☞ The word is used adjectively with the above senses in many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. (Cartography) Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Culture fluid,
Culture medium a fluid in which microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence. If the fluid is gelled by, for example, the use of agar, it then is called, depending on the vessel in which the gelled medium is contained, a plate, a slant, or a stab. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cultured p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing. ] To cultivate; to educate. [ 1913 Webster ]

They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. Usher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Under culture; cultivated. “Cultured vales.” Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Surv.) The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Having no culture. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A cultivator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is an advocate of culture. [ 1913 Webster ]

The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not&unr_;) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man. J. C. Shairp [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Cultuses [ L., cultivation, culture. See Cult. ] Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cultus cod. ] Bad, worthless; no good. [ Northwestern U. S. ]

“A bad horse, cultus [ no good ] !” he said, beating it with his whip. F. H. Balch. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ Chinook cultus of little worth. ] (Zool.) See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo. [ 1913 Webster ]