pertaining to the cultivation of land
111Order of Preachers — Order of Preachers † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of Preachers As the Order of the Friars Preachers is the principal part of the entire Order of St. Dominic, we shall include under this title the two other parts of the order: the… …
112Virginia — /veuhr jin yeuh/, n. 1. a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 5,346,279; 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Cap.: Richmond. Abbr.: VA (for use with zip code), Va. 2. a town in NE Minnesota. 11,056. 3.… …
113desert — desert1 desertic /di zerr tik/, adj. desertlike, adj. /dez euhrt/, n. 1. a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert. 2. any area …
114Maasai — Infobox Ethnic group group = Maasai image caption = population = 883,000 region1 = flagcountry|Kenya spaces|8(estimates vary) pop1 = 377,089 or 453,000 ref1 = lower| lower|0.95em| region2 = flagcountry|Tanzania (northern) pop2 = 430,000 ref3 =… …
115Gulni — Infobox Indian Jurisdiction native name = Gulni type = village latd = 25.32 | longd = 85.28 locator position = right state name = Bihar district = Nalanda parliament const = Nalanda assembly const = Hilsa leader title = leader name = altitude =… …
116Zapotec — /zap euh tek , zah peuh /; Sp. /sah paw tek /, n., pl. Zapotecs, (esp. collectively) Zapotec for 1, adj. n. 1. a member of an American Indian people living in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 2. the Oto Manguean language of the Zapotecs, consisting… …
117Astrology — • The supposed science which determines the influence of the stars, especially of the five older planets, on the fate of man Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Astrology Astrology …
118Baldernock — BALDERNOCK, a parish, in the county of Stirling, 7 miles (N.) from Glasgow; containing, with the village of Balmore, 972 inhabitants, of whom 814 are exclusive of the village. The name of this place is corrupted, as is supposed, from the… …
119Heaven — may refer to the physical heavens, the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the universe beyond.The term is used to refer to a plane of existence (sometimes held to exist in our own universe) in religions and spiritual philosophies, typically… …
120Agriculture in London — is a rather small enterprise, with only 8.6% of the Greater London area being used for commercial farming, nearly all of which is close to Greater London s outer boundaries. There are a few city farms closer to the centre of the city and about 30 …
