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Soil Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Soil?
[n] material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
[n] the state of being covered with unclean things [n] the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock [v] make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" Synonyms | Synonyms for Soil: begrime | bemire | colly | dirt | dirt | dirty | filth | grease | grime | grime | ground | grunge | land | stain Related Terms | Find terms related to Soil: See Also | alluvial soil | alter | badlands | blemish | bog soil | bole | bottom | bottomland | boulder clay | caliche | change | clay | clunch | coastland | contaminate | crock | cultivated land | desert soil | desertic soil | dirtiness | dust | earth | farmland | foul | fuller's earth | gilgai soil | greensward | ground | gumbo | gumbo soil | hardpan | humus | Indian red | indurated clay | laterite | loam | loess | marl | mire | mold | mould | muck | muck up | mud | mud | muddy | muddy up | object | overburden | permafrost | physical object | ploughland | plowland | podsol | podsol soil | podsolic soil | podzol | podzol soil | pollute | prairie soil | rangeland | regosol | residual clay | residual soil | sand | sedimentary clay | silt | slime | smear | sod | splash | spot | subsoil | surface soil | sward | till | tillage | tilled land | tilth | topsoil | tundra soil | turf | uncleanness | undersoil | wetland | wiesenboden Soil In Webster's Dictionary \Soil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Soiling}.] [OF. saoler, saouler, to satiate, F. so[^u]ler,
L. satullare, fr. satullus, dim. of satur sated. See
{Satire}.]
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure,
with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of
sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the
effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food;
as, to soil a horse.
\Soil\, n. [OE. soile, F. sol, fr. L. solum bottom, soil; but the word has probably been influenced in form by soil a miry place. Cf. {Saloon}, {Soil} a miry place, {Sole} of the foot.] 1. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them. 2. Land; country. Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil? --Milton. 3. Dung; f[ae]ces; compost; manure; as, night soil. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils. --Mortimer. {Soil pipe}, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. \Soil\, v. t. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure. Men . . . soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop. --South. \Soil\, n. [OF. soil, souil, F. souille, from OF. soillier, F. souiller. See {Soil} to make dirty.] A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. --Marston. {To take soil}, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter. O, sir, have you taken soil here? It is well a man may reach you after three hours' running. --B. Jonson. \Soil\, v. t.[OE. soilen, OF. soillier, F. souiller, (assumed) LL. suculare, fr. L. sucula a little pig, dim. of sus a swine. See {Sow}, n.] 1. To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust. Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. --Milton. 2. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. --Shak. Syn: To foul; dirt; dirty; begrime; bemire; bespatter; besmear; daub; bedaub; stain; tarnish; sully; defile; pollute. \Soil\, v. i. To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones. \Soil\, n. [See {Soil} to make dirty, {Soil} a miry place.] That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain. A lady's honor . . . will not bear a soil. --Dryden. |
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