Webster's Dictionary 1913

10018

Culter

Cul″ter (kŭl″tẽr), n. A colter. See Colter.

10019

Cultirostral

Cul′ti‐ros″tral (–tĭ‐rŏs″tral), a. [See Cultirostres.] (Zoöl.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

10020

Cultirostres

‖Cul′ti‐ros″tres (–trēz), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. culter colter of a plow, knife + rostrum bill.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.

10021

Cultivable

Cul″ti‐va‐ble (k?l″t?–v?–b'l), a. [Cf. F. cultivable.] Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.

10022

Cultivatable

Cul″ti‐va′ta‐ble (k?l″t?–v?′t?–b'l), a. Cultivable.

10023

Cultivate

Cul″ti‐vate (k?l″t?–v?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cultivated (–v?′t?d); p. pr. & vb. n.Cultivating (–v?′–t?ng).] [LL. cultivatus, p. p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultiv...

10024

Cultivation

Cul′ti‐va″tion (k?l′t?–v?″sh?n), n. [Cf. F. cultivation.] 1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; producti...

10025

Cultivator

Cul″ti‐va′tor (k?l″t?–v?′t?r), n. [Cf. F. cultivateur.]1. One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.2. An agricultural implement used...

10026

Cultrate

{ Cul″trate (k?l″tr?t), Cul″tra‐ted (–tr?–t?d), } a. [L. cultratus knife-shaped, fromculter, cultri, knife.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife,...

10027

Cultriform

Cul″tri‐form (–tr?–f?rm), a. [L. culter, cultri, knife + -form.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

10028

Cultrivorous

Cul‐triv″o‐rous (k?l–tr?b″?–r?s), a. [L. culter, cultri, knife + vorare to devour.] Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; — applied to persons who have...

10029

Culturable

Cul″tur‐a‐ble (k?l″t?r–?–b'l; 135), a. Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator.

10030

Cultural

Cul″tur‐al (k?l″t?r–a>l), a. Of or pertaining to culture.

10031

Culture

Cul″ture (k?l″t?r; 135), 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 ...

10032

Culture (2)

Cul″ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cultured (–t?rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n.Culturing.] To cultivate; to educate.They came... into places well inhabited and cultured.Usher.

10033

Culture (3)

Cul″ture (?), n. 1. (Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions. (b) The collection of organisms resulting from...

10034

Culture features

Culture features. (Surv.) The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

10035

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.

10036

Cultured

Cul″tured (k?l″t?rd), a. 1. Under culture; cultivated. “Cultured vales.” Shenstone.2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.The sense o...

10037

Cultureless

Cul″ture‐less, a. Having no culture.

10038

Culturist

Cul″tur‐ist, n. 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 th...

10039

Cultus

‖Cul″tus (k?l″t?s), n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Cultuses (–�z). [L., cultivation, culture. See Cult.] Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious...

10040

Cultus (2)

Cul″tus (?), a. [See Cultus cod.] Bad, worth less; no good.“A bad horse, cultus!” he said, beating it with his whip. F. H. Balch.

10041

Cultus cod

Cul″tus cod′ (k?d′). [Chinook cultus of little worth.] (Zoöl.) See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.

10042

Culver

Cul″ver (k?″v?r), n. [AS. culfre, perh. fr. L. columba.] A dove. “Culver in the falcon's fist.” Spenser.

10043

Culver (2)

Cul″ver, n. [Abbrev. fr. Culverin.] A culverin.Falcon and culver on each towerStood prompt their deadly hail to shower.Sir W. Scott.

10044

Culver's physic

{ Cul″ver's phys″ic (?), orCul″ver's root′ (?) }. [So called after a Dr. Culver, who used it.] (Bot.) The root of a handsome erect herb (Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica) com...