Meaning

(archaic, literary) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, literary) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
2. To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
3. Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
4. (by extension) Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
5. (euphemistic) Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.

Example Sentences

A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.

Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.

The farmer manured his fallow field.

My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]

[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.

vegetable manure [⁠= green manure⁠]

livestock manures

Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.

Word Forms

• manures
• manuring
• manured

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