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Word Meanings - AGRICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

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  • STOCKER
    One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • GROUNDEN
    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • REAR-HORSE
    A mantis.
  • FARMERESS
    A woman who farms.
  • STOCKWORK
    A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
  • FARMSTEAD
    A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.
  • STOCK-BLIND
    Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
  • CULTIVATABLE
    Cultivable.
  • REARGUMENT
    An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
  • FARMERY
    The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
  • GROUNDNUT
    The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
  • FARMSTEADING
    A farmstead. Black.
  • FARMING
    Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.
  • GROUNDLESS
    Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
  • HARVEST-HOME
    1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak. 2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden. 3. A service
  • STOCKADE
    A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata
  • REARMOST
    Farthest in the rear; last.
  • STOCKY
    1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
  • STOCK-STILL
    Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
  • BABY FARMING
    The business of keeping a baby farm.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • FIREARM
    A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • DREAR
    Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
  • BEETLESTOCK
    The handle of a beetle.
  • BLUESTOCKINGISM
    The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
  • PRESCIENCE
    Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.

 

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