Cultirostral Cul`ti·ros"tral (-tĭ*rŏs"tr
a l)
adjective [ See
Cultirostres .]
(Zoology) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.
Cultirostres Cul`ti·ros"tres (-trēz)
noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin
culter colter of a plow, knife +
rostrum bill.]
(Zoology) A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.
Cultivable Cul"ti·va·ble adjective [ Confer French
cultivable .]
Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.
Cultivatable Cul"ti·va`ta·ble adjective Cultivable.
Cultivate Cul"ti·vate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cultivated (-v?`t?d);
present participle & verbal noun Cultivating (-v?`- t?ng).] [ Late Latin
cultivatus , past participle of
cultivare to cultivate, from
cultivus cultivated, from Latin
cultus , past participle of
colere to till, cultivate. Confer
Colony .]
1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature.
Wordsworth.
3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. 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.
4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage.
Addison.
The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end.
Tillotson.
5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
Cultivation Cul`ti·va"tion noun [ Confer French
cultivation .]
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture. Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians.
Hallam.
Cultivator Cul"ti·va`tor noun [ Confer French
cultivateur .]
1. One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell. 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. » In a broader signification it includes any complex implement for pulverizing or stirring the surface of the soil, as harrows, grubbers, horse hoes, etc.
Cultrate Cul"trate adjective [ Latin
cultratus knife-shaped, from
culter ,
cultri , knife.]
(Bot. & Zoology) Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.
Cultriform Cul"tri·form adjective [ Latin
culter ,
cultri , knife +
-form .]
(Bot. & Zoology) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
Cultrivorous Cul·triv"o·rous adjective [ Latin
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.
Culturable Cul"tur·a·ble adjective Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator.
Cultural Cul"tur·al adjective Of or pertaining to culture.
Culture Cul"ture noun [ French
culture , Latin
cultura , from
colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Confer
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. 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. If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture , not the soil.
Pepe.
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. 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.
The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture .
Tylor.
Culture fluid ,
a fluid in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence.
Culture Cul"ture transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cultured (-t?rd; 135);
present participle & verbal noun Culturing .]
To cultivate; to educate. They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured .
Usher.
Culture Cul"ture noun 1. (Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions. (b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation. » 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.
2. (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.
Culture features Culture features (Surv.) The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
Culture myth Culture myth A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.
Cultured Cul"tured adjective 1. Under culture; cultivated. "
Cultured vales."
Shenstone. 2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments.
I. Taylor.
The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Whittier.
Cultureless Cul"ture·less adjective Having no culture.
Culturist Cul"tur·ist noun 1. A cultivator. 2. One who is an advocate of culture. The culturists , by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not...) 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
Cultus Cul"tus noun sing. & plural ; E. plural
Cultuses (-...z). [ Latin , cultivation, culture. See
Cult .]
Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Confer Cult , 2.
Cultus Cul"tus adjective [ See
Cultus cod .]
Bad, worth less; no good. [ Northwestern U. S.]
"A bad horse, cultus [ no good] !" he said, beating it with his whip.
F. H. Balch.
Cultus cod Cul"tus cod` (k?d`). [ Chinook cultus of little worth.] (Zoology) See Cod , and Buffalo cod , under Buffalo .
Culver Cul"ver noun [ Anglo-Saxon
culfre , perhaps from Latin
columba .]
A dove. "
Culver in the falcon's fist."
Spenser.
Culver Cul"ver noun [ Abbrev. from
Culverin .]
A culverin. Falcon and culver on each tower
Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.
Sir W. Scott.
Culver's physic Cul"ver's phys"ic or Cul"ver's root` [ So called after a Dr. Culver , who used it.] (Botany) The root of a handsome erect herb ( Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica ) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.
Culverhouse Cul"ver·house` (-hous`)
noun A dovecote.
Culverin Cul"ver·in noun [ French
coulevrine , prop. fem. of
couleuvrin like a serpent, from
couleuvre adder, from Latin
coluber ,
colubra .]
A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles. Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin .
Macaulay.
Culverkey Cul"ver·key` noun 1. A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree. Wright. 2. An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill ( Scilla nutans ). [ Obsolete]
A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands.
Walton.
Culvert Cul"vert noun [ Prob. from Old French
coulouere , French
couloir , channel, gutter, gallery, from
couler to flow. See
Cullis .]
A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Culvertail Cul"ver·tail` noun (Carp.) Dovetail.
Culvertailed Cul"ver·tailed` adjective United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
Cumacea Cu·ma"ce·a noun plural [ New Latin ]
(Zoology) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.
Cumbent Cum"bent adjective [ Confer
Recumbent ,
Covey .]
Lying down; recumbent. J. Dyer.
Cumber Cum"ber transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cumbered (-b?rd);
present participle & verbal noun Cumbering .] [ Middle English
combren ,
cumbren ,OF.
combrer to hinder, from Late Latin
cumbrus a heap, from Latin
cumulus ; confer Sanskrit
...... to increase, grow strong. Confer
Cumulate .]
To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight,
And would but cumber and retard his flight?
Dryden.
Martha was cumbered about much serving.
Luke x. 40.
Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
Luke xiii. 7.
The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory.
Locke.
Cumber Cum"ber noun [ Confer
encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber,
v. ]
Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [ Obsolete] [ Written also
comber .]
A place of much distraction and cumber .
Sir H. Wotton.
Sage counsel in cumber .
Sir W. Scott.
Cumbersome Cum"ber·some (k...m"b...r-s...m)
adjective 1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience.
Sir. P. Sidney.
2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome , circuitous.
I. Taylor.
--
Cum"ber*some*ly ,
adverb --
Cum"ber*some*ness ,
noun
Cumbrance Cum"brance noun Encumbrance. [ Obsolete]
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance , if not snare.
Milton.
Cumbrian Cum"bri·an adjective Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there. Cumbrian system (Geol.) ,
the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; -- so called because most prominent at Cumberland.
Cumbrous Cum"brous adjective 1. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging. He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.
Swift.
That cumbrous and unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively.
De Quincey.
2. Giving trouble; vexatious. [ Obsolete]
A clud of cumbrous gnats.
Spenser.
--
Cum"brous*ly ,
adverb --
Cum"brous*ness ,
noun
Cumene Cu"mene noun [ From
Cumin .]
(Chemistry) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C 6 H 5 .C 3 H 7 , obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol .
Cumfrey Cum"frey noun (Botany) See Comfrey .
Cumic Cu"mic adjective (Chemistry) See Cuming .
Cumidine Cu"mi·dine noun [ From
Cumin .]
(Chemistry) A strong, liquid, organic base, C 3 H 7 . C 6 H 4 .NH 2 , homologous with aniline.
Cumin Cum"in noun [ Middle English
comin , Anglo-Saxon
cymen , from Latin
cuminum , Greek .....................; of Semitic origin, confer Arabic
kamm...n , Hebrew
kamm...n ; confer Old French
comin , French
cumin . Confer
Kummel .]
(Botany) A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel ( Cuminum Cyminum ), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. [ Written also
cummin .]
Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes.
Spenser.
Black cumin (Botany) ,
a plant ( Nigella sativa ) with pungent seeds, used by the Afghans, etc.
Cuminic Cu·min"ic adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid. Cuminic acid (Chemistry) ,
white crystalline substance, C 3 H 7 . C 6 H 4 .CO 2 H, obtained from oil of caraway.
Cuminil Cu"mi·nil n . A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.
Cuminol Cu"mi·nol noun [
Cuminic + Latin
ole um.]
A liquid, C 3 H 7 .C 6 H 4 .CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde .
Cummerbund Cum"mer·bund` noun [ Written also
kummerbund ,
cummerband , etc.] [ Hind.
kamarband , from Persian
Kamar loins +
band fastening.]
A sash for the waist; a girdle. [ India]
Cummin Cum"min noun Same as Cumin . Ye pay tithe of mint, and cummin .
Matt. xxiii. 23.
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