BUCOL'IC, a. [Gr. a herdsman; pastoral; L. buculus, an ox; bucolicus, pertaining to cattle, pastoral.]
Pastoral; relating to country affairs and to a shepherd's life and occupation.
BUCOL'IC, n. 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.
