\Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
{Colony}.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
   earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
   culture of the soil.
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,
   disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
   nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
         If vain our toil We ought to blame the culture, not
         the soil.                             --Pepe.
3. 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.
         What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
         Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
         express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
                                               Shairp.
         The list of all the items of the general life of a
         people represents that whole which we call its
         culture.                              --Tylor.
{Culture fluid}, 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.

\Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cultured} (-t?rd; 135);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Culturing}.]
To cultivate; to educate.
      They came . . . into places well inhabited and
      cultured.                                --Usher.

\Cul"ture\, n.
1. (Biol.)
   (a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in
       artificial media or under artificial conditions.
   (b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a
       cultivation.
Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in
      many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the
      various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in
      which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture
      oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture,
      etc.
2. (Cartography) Those details of a map, collectively, which
   do not represent natural features of the area delineated,
   as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses,
   bridges, meridians, and parallels.