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Arcadic :: Arcadic (a.) Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery..

Heritage :: Heritage (a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge..

Oboe :: Oboe (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy..

Siciliano :: Siciliano (n.) A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance..

Bucolic :: Bucolic (a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Settle :: Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister..

Madrigal :: Madrigal (n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought..

Crosier :: Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God..

Pastoral :: Pastoral (a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter..

Tragi-comi-pastoral :: Tragi-comi-pastoral (a.) Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry..

Pastorale :: Pastorale (n.) A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time..

Bucolic :: Bucolic (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil..

Pastorally :: Pastorally (adv.) In the manner of a pastor.

Amaryllis :: Amaryllis (n.) A pastoral sweetheart.

Reed :: Reed (n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.

Idyl :: Idyl (n.) A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like..

Shepherdly :: Shepherdly (a.) Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic..

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition..

Pastoral :: Pastoral (n.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.

Pastorale :: Pastorale (n.) A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.

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