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.
Related words: (words related to AGRICULTURE)
- 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.