
Noah Webster
Bucolic
BUCOL'IC, adjective [Gr. a herdsman; pastoral; Latin buculus, an ox; bucolicus, pertaining to cattle, pastoral.]
Pastoral; relating to country affairs and to a shepherd's life and occupation.
BUCOL'IC, noun A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners and occupation of shepherds; as the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
1. A writer of pastorals.