Part 2660

<hw>Cul*triv"o*rous</hw> <tt>(k?l-tr?b"?-r?s)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>culter</ets>, <ets>cultri</ets>, knife + <ets>vorare</ets> to devour.]</ety> <def>Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<h1>Culturable</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cul"tur*a*ble</hw> <tt>(k?l"t?r-?-b'l; 135)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured.</def>

<i>London Spectator.</i>

<h1>Cultural</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cul"tur*al</hw> <tt>(k?l"t?r-a]/>l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to culture.</def>

<h1>Culture</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cul"ture</hw> <tt>(k?l"t?r; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>culture</ets>, L. <ets>cultura</ets>, fr. <ets>colere</ets> to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf. <er>Colony</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; <as>as, the <ex>culture</ex> of the soil</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as. the <i>culture</i> of the mind.</def>

<blockquote>If vain our toil We ought to blame the<b>culture</b>, not the soil. <i>Pepe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>What the Greeks expressed by their <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/<?/<?/, the Romans by their <b>humanitas</b>, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word <b>culture</b>. <i>J. C. Shairp.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its <b>culture</b>. <i>Tylor.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Culture fluid</col>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Culture</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cul"ture</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Cultured</er> <tt>(-t?rd; 135)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Culturing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To cultivate; to educate.</def>

<blockquote>They came . . . into places well inhabited and <b>cultured</b>. <i>Usher.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cultured</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cul"tured</hw> <tt>(k?l"t?rd)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Under culture; cultivated.</def> "<i>Cultured</i> vales."

<i>Shenstone.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.</def>

<blockquote>The sense of beauty in nature, even among <b>cultured</b> people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The cunning hand and <b>cultured</b> brain. <i>Whittier.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cultureless</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cul"ture*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no culture.</def>

<h1>Culturist</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cul"tur*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cultivator.</def>