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Word Meanings - CULTIVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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.

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  • FINESSE
    The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
  • FARMERESS
    A woman who farms.
  • FARMSTEAD
    A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.
  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • FARMERY
    The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
  • FARMSTEADING
    A farmstead. Black.
  • FARMING
    Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.
  • POLISHED
    Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
  • AMELIORATION
    The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.
  • CULTURE FEATURES
    The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
  • HUSBANDRY
    1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all
  • AGRICULTURE
    The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
  • POLISHABLE
    Capable of being polished.
  • REFINEMENT
    1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
  • CULTURED
    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
  • CULTURE MYTH
    A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.
  • FARMYARD
    The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.
  • POLISHEDNESS
    The quality of being polished.
  • FARM
    A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials . (more info) 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part
  • SUBTILTY
    1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke. 3. Cunning; skill;
  • SELF-CULTURE
    Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.
  • BABY FARMING
    The business of keeping a baby farm.
  • SILVICULTURE
    See SYLVICULTURE
  • REPOLISH
    To polish again.
  • UNCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
  • OSTREACULTURE
    The artificial cultivation of oysters.
  • BABY FARM
    A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • DEPOLISHING
    The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
  • FLORICULTURE
    The cultivation of flowering plants.

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