Manure
[mə'njʊə] or [mə'nʊr]
Definition
(noun.) any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material.
(verb.) spread manure, as for fertilization.
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Definition
(v. t.) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
(v. t.) To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.
(n.) Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.
Inputed by Bennett
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Fertilize, enrich.
n. Fertilizer, compost, dressing, fertilizing mixture.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fertilize, enrich
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Definition
v.t. to enrich land with any fertilising substance.—n. any substance applied to land to make it more fruitful.—ns. Manur′ance (Spens.) cultivation; Manur′er.—adj. Manū′rial.—n. Manur′ing a dressing or spreading of manure on land.
Typist: Steven
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing manure, is a favorable omen. Much good will follow the dream. Farmers especially will feel a rise in fortune.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- He could see a trail through the grass where horses had been led to the stream to drink and there was the fresh manure of several horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But the band of Sordo are as much better than we are as we are better than goat manure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The crazy bitch, he thought, and he said, That is more of her gypsy manure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But these can never afford manure enough for keeping constantly in good condition all the lands which they are capable of cultivating. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The shutters of the house were closed, and Christian Cantle, who had been wheeling manure about the garden all day, had gone home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Do not talk such manure, he said, using a stronger, ugly word. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The rest were never manured, but a certain portion of them was in its turn, notwithstanding, regularly cultivated and exhausted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That is manuring obscenity. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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