About The Word Manure
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Manure
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What's The Definition Of Manure?
[n] any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material
[v] spread manure, as for fertilization Synonyms | Synonyms for Manure: muck Related Terms | Find terms related to Manure: ammonia | BM | bowel movement | buffalo chips | ca-ca | castor-bean meal | commercial fertilizer | compost | coprolite | coprolith | cow chips | cow flops | cow pats | crap | defecation | dingleberry | dressing | droppings | dung | enrichener | feces | feculence | fertilizer | guano | jakes | movement | muck | night soil | nitrate | nitrogen | ordure | organic fertilizer | phosphate | sewage | sewerage | shit | stool | superphosphate | turd See Also | chicken manure | cow manure | green manure | horse manure | night soil | organic | organic fertiliser | organic fertilizer | scatter | spread | spread out Manure In Webster's Dictionary \Ma*nure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Manured}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Manuring}.] [Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work
with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. man?uvker.
See {Manual}, {Ure}, {Opera}, and cf. {Inure}.]
1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop
by culture. [Obs.]
To whom we gave the strand for to manure. --Surrey.
Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And
with vain, outward things be no more moved. --Donne.
2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application
of a fertilizing substance.
The blood of English shall manure the ground.
--Shak.
\Ma*nure"\, n. Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. --Dryden. |
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