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Manure

Manure Meaning & Definition
Manure Definition And Meaning

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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