Word Meanings - GEORGIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.

Related words: (words related to GEORGIC)

• RURALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• CULTIVATABLE
  Cultivable.
• RURALIZE
  To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
• RURAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak. 2. Of
• 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
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• VIRGILIAN
  Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil. The rich Virgilian rustic measure Of Lari Maxume. Tennyson.
• POETICALLY
  In a poetic manner.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• RURALES
  The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.
• RURALNESS
  The quality or state of being rural.
• RURALISM
  1. The quality or state of being rural; ruralness. 2. A rural idiom or expression.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• EQUICRURAL
  Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
• BICRURAL
  Having two legs. Hooker.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• CERULESCENT
  Tending to cerulean; light bluish.