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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

... tank or reservoir for surface water as big as a lake, and bore for artesian water—and get it, too, if I had to bore right through to England; and I'd irrigate the ground and make it grow horse-feed and fruit, and vegetables too, if I had to cart manure from Bourke. And every teamster's bullock or horse, and every shearer's hack, could burst itself free, but I'd make travelling stock pay—for it belongs to the squatters and capitalists. All carriers could camp for ...

— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... it and got a tremendous crop of blossom. You probably have secured the same results. That is one of Nature's ways to perpetuate itself. But I think there a constructive angle in those trees that respond to nitrogenous fertilizer or manure. I believe the secret, if there is a secret, is that a tree in bearing a crop exhausts itself more or less. It recuperates the following year and then is ready to bear another crop. And the way to meet that situation is to fertilize ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting - Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 • Various

... man and mutton? pride and a tailor's bill. Murder? I know who made that name—a man crouching from the knife! Selfishness made it—the aggregated egotism called society; but I meet that with a selfishness as great. Has he money? Have I none—great powers, none? Well, then, I fatten and manure my life ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson

... are cold-climate houses, they frequently have novel means of keeping them warm; one way that I have frequently seen used is to surround them with a log fence shown in Fig. 249, and pack the space between with stable manure or dirt ...

— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard

... will frequently allow the part to heal at once. Among causes of inflammation may be mentioned a stone in the frog, causing a traumatic thrush; a badly fitting harness or saddle, causing ulcers of the skin; decomposing manure and urine in a stable, which, by their vapors, irritate the air tubes and ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

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