Crossword clues for agriculturist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agriculturist \Ag`ri*cul"tur*ist\, n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist
may be a mere theorist.
--Crabb.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to agriculture or agriculturists. n. One who practices agriculture, a farmer, a gardener.
WordNet
n. someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil [syn: cultivator, grower, raiser]
Usage examples of "agriculturist".
The fruits and productions of the soil, raised by labour and capital, are disseminated and divided among all classes, who exchange their labour for that of the agriculturist, until sustenance is obtained by all.
Bugeaud in two separate characters, the agriculturist and the legislator.
There would be less labor incorporated into an acre of grain, and the agriculturist would be therefore obliged to exchange it for a less labor incorporated into some other article.
Again, is it not the agriculturist who fattens, for our clothes, his abundant flocks in the pastures?
Russell, of The Scotsman, fulminated against the injustice of refusing a lease to the foremost agriculturist in Scotland--and when you say that you may say of the United Kingdom--because the tenant held certain political opinions and had the courage to express them.
The British agriculturist thinks that meadow hay is the natural forage for horses and cattle, and for winter turnips are the standby.
The continued distress of the agriculturists in England, at the commencement of this year led to some modification in the state of public parties.
This concession to the agriculturists gave great offence to those who advocated free trade.
Notwithstanding, the opposition which had been made to the bill of last year was renewed by the agriculturists on the same grounds as before.
Complaints and applications for relief by the agriculturists, he said, had come up from every county, and they had been disregarded, probably because they were couched in respectful language.
The landed interest, likewise, was against this measure: agriculturists wishing rather to see the duty on malt than beer repealed.
Proudhon reduce themselves, then, to this: since the most skillful agriculturists are those who have reduced the heads of sheep to the smallest size, we shall have arrived at the highest agricultural perfection when sheep have no longer any heads.
When the agriculturists of China struck to obtain a reasonable allowance of electric power for their tillage, Gordelpus affected them with an evil atmosphere, so that they choked and died in thousands.
The population was derived almost wholly from the agriculturists of the old order, and since agriculture had been considered a sluggish and base occupation, fit only for sluggish natures, the planet was now peopled with yokels.
God our agriculturists were chemists, or that at least they would pay more attention to the counsels of science.