Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CUL'TI-VA-BLE – CUM'BER-ED
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CUL'TI-VA-BLE, a. [See Cultivate.]
Capable of being tilled or cultivated. – Med. Repos. Edwards' W. Indies.
CUL-TI-VA'TA-BLE, a.
Cultivable. – Edwards.
CUL'TI-VATE, v.t. [Fr. cultiver; Sp. and Port. cultivar; It. coltivare; from L. colo, cultus, to till, to dwell.]
- To till; to prepare for crops; to manure, plow, dress, sow and reap; to labor or manage and improve in husbandry; as, to cultivate land; to cultivate a farm. – Sinclair.
- To improve by labor or study; to advance the growth of; to refine and improve by correction of faults, and enlargement of powers or good qualities; as, to cultivate talents; to cultivate a taste for poetry.
- To study; to labor to improve or advance; as, to cultivate philosophy; to cultivate the mind.
- To cherish; to foster; to labor to promote and increase; as, to cultivate the love of excellence; to cultivate gracious affections.
- To improve; to meliorate, or to labor to make better; to correct; to civilize; as, to cultivate the wild savage.
- To raise or produce by tillage; as, to cultivate corn or grass. – Sinclair.
CUL'TI-VA-TED, pp.
Tilled; improved in excellence or condition; corrected and enlarged; cherished; meliorated; civilized; produced by tillage.
CUL'TI-VA-TING, ppr.
Tilling; preparing for crops; improving in worth or good qualities; meliorating; enlarging; correcting; fostering; civilizing; producing by tillage.
CUL-TI-VA'TION, n.
- The art or practice of tilling and preparing for crops; husbandry; the management of land. Land is often made better by cultivation. Ten acres under good cultivation will produce more than twenty when badly tilled.
- Study, care and practice directed to improvement, correction, enlargement or increase; the application of the means of improvement; as, men may grow wiser by the cultivation of talents; they may grow better by the cultivation of the mind, of virtue, and of piety.
- The producing by tillage; as, the cultivation of corn or grass.
CUL'TI-VA-TOR, n.
- One who tills, or prepares land for crops; one who manages a farm, or carries on the operations of husbandry in general; a farmer; a husbandman; an agriculturist.
- One who studies or labors to improve, to promote and advance in good qualities, or in growth.
CUL'TRA-TED, a. [L. cultratus, from culter, a knife.]
Sharp-edged and pointed; formed like a knife; as, the beak of a bird is convex and cultrated. – Encyc. art. Corvus.
CUL'TURE, n. [L. cultura, from colo. See Cultivate.]
- The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; cultivation; the application of labor or other means of improvement. We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. – Pope.
- The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as, the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue.
- The application of labor or other means in producing; as, the culture of corn, or grass.
- Any labor or means employed for improvement, correction or growth.
CU'L'TURE, v.t.
To cultivate. – Thomson.
CUL'TUR-ED, pp.
Cultivated.
CUL'TURE-LESS, a.
Having no culture.
CUL'TUR-ING, ppr.
Cultivating.
CUL'TUR-IST, n.
A cultivator.
CUL'VER, n. [Sax. culfer, culfra; Arm. colm; L. columba.]
A pigeon, or wood pigeon. – Thomson.
CUL'VER-HOUSE, n.
A dove-cote. – Harmar.
CUL'VER-IN, n. [Fr. couleuvrine; It. colubrina; Sp. culebrina; from L. colubrinus, from coluber, a serpent.]
A long, slender piece of ordnance or artillery, serving to carry a ball to a great distance. – Encyc.
CUL'VER-KEY, n.
A plant or flower. – Walton.
CUL'VERT, n.
A passage under a road or canal, covered with a bridge; an arched drain for the passage of water. – Cyc.
CUL'VER-TAIL, n. [culver and tail.]
Dove-tail, in joinery and carpentry.
CUL'VER-TAIL-ED, a.
United or fastened, as pieces of timber by a dove-tailed joint; a term used by shipwrights. Encyc.
CUM'BENT, a. [L. cumbo.]
Lying down.
CUM'BER, n.
Hinderance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress. Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. – Spenser. [This word is now scarcely used.]
CUM'BER, v.t. [Dan. kummer, distress, incumbranee, grief; D. kommeren; G. kümmern, to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve; Fr. encombrer, to encumber.]
- To load, or crowd. A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose. – Locke.
- To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight. – Dryden.
- To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble. Martha was cumbered about much serving. – Luke x.
- To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used.]
CUM'BER-ED, pp.
Loaded; crowded.