a poetical composition upon the subject of husbandry, containing rules therein, put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry. The word is borrowed from the Latin *georgicus*, and that of the Greek *γεωργεύς*, of *γῆ*, *terra*, "earth," and *ἔργον*, *opera*, "I work, or labour," of *ἔργον*, *opus*, "work." Hesiod and Virgil are the two greatest masters in this kind of poetry.—The moderns have produced nothing in this kind, except Rapin's book of Gardening; and the celebrated poem entitled Cyder, by Mr Philips, who, if he had enjoyed the advantage of Virgil's language, would have been second to Virgil in a much nearer degree.