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noun

manure n. Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance. Especially,, Dung, the contents of stables and barnyards, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.

verb

Manure v. t. (past & past part. manured; pres. part. manuring)

To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. (Obs.) "To whom we gave the strand for to manure." "Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved."

To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance. "The blood of English shall manure the ground."

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Etymology of 'Manure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manure" Quotes from Famous Books

... planted in a portion of a five-acre block at some distance from the original plantings, with a spacing of 25 feet apart on the square in soil of rather light and sandy texture with fair subsoil drainage. The fertility was low but has been improved through the use of winter leguminous green manure crops and commercial fertilizers. Some of the trees planted consisted of trees grown from carefully selected Castanea mollissima nuts imported from south China and designated by the initials MBA, MAY, MAZ, and MAX. Others carried the designating ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various

... what with the rapid vegetation, and the clearing effects of rain and dew, a month had hardly passed before the place began to look very much as it did before the misfortune, Morgan informing me smilingly that the soft mud was as good for the garden as a great dressing of manure. ...

— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn

... The kicking and pawing of the moss-covered ground with their spade-like feet tear it up, level it, and cut off the dense moss and creeping plants, bring the sub-soil to the top, and over the whole the big herd spreads a good covering of manure. ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... matter; they are cast aside, and, as distinct souls, are gradually annihilated. But they may still manure the soil, and involuntarily help the growth of others. Sooner or later, in one or another form, ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... of powder; but he still carried his chin as if he were conscious of a stiff cravat; he set his dilapidated hat on with a knowing inclination towards the left ear; and when he was on field-work, he carted and uncarted the manure with a sort of flunkey grace, the ghost of that jaunty demeanour with which he used to usher in my lady's morning visitors. The flunkey nature was nowhere completely subdued but in his stomach, and he still divided society into gentry, gentry's flunkeys, and the people who provided for them. A ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

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