Dirt
Publish date: 2024-06-23
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Land; country. |
| • | Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil. |
| • | To enrich with soil or muck; to manure. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust. |
| • | To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. |
| • | To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones. |
| • | That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain. |
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