Food, AGRICULTURE. III.

The Ground, or Land; in respect of

• Loosning it; either ‖ by single persons: or by the help of drawing Beasts.
  • DIGGING, delve, break up, spit, spade.
  • PLOWING, tilling, breaking up, coulter, share.
• Breaking the clods, and smoothing the surface.
  • HARROWING.
  • ROLLING.
• Helping or directing the Fertility of the ground, by ‖ adding some new matter▪ or removing the impediments of noxious Plants.
  • MANURING, cultivate, dunging, marling, soiling, Tilth, culture.
  • WEEDING.

The Grane or Seed, chiefly of Herbs; in respect of

• Putting it into the ground, or taking it off from the ground upon its ma∣turity.
  • SOWING, seminate.
  • REAPING, mowing, Crop, Harvest, Sithe, Sickle, stubble, swarth.
• Separating of it from the straw, or lesser husks.
  • THRESHING, Flail.
  • WINNOWING, Fan, Ventilation.

The Propagation of Trees or Shrubs chiefly, by

• Putting the Root of the Plant in the ground; to which may be adjoyned the putting of Grain segregately into the ground, which is sometimes u∣sed for Pulse.
  • PLANTING, implant.
  • SETTING.
• Ioyning a part of one Plant to another; either ‖ to the top of the body, or some branch being cut, or to the sides of the body.
  • GRAFTING, ingraft, Imp.
  • INOCOLATING.
• Cutting off superfluous Branches; to which may be adjoyned the cutting down of the whole.
  • PRUNING, dressing, cutting, coping.
  • FELLING, grubb, wood-fall.