transitive verb. To feed (livestock) with soilage.

noun. The top layer of the earth's surface in which plants can grow, consisting of rock and mineral particles mixed with decayed organic matter and having the capability of retaining water.

noun. A particular kind of earth or ground.

noun. Country; land.

noun. The agricultural life.

noun. A place or condition favorable to growth; a breeding ground.

intransitive verb. To make dirty, particularly on the surface.

intransitive verb. To disgrace; tarnish.

intransitive verb. To corrupt; defile.

intransitive verb. To dirty with excrement.

intransitive verb. To become dirty, stained, or tarnished.

noun. undefined

noun. The state of being soiled.

noun. A stain.

noun. Filth, sewage, or refuse.

noun. Manure, especially human excrement, used as fertilizer.

noun. A marshy or wet place to which a hunted boar resorts for reruge; hence, a wet place, stream, or water sought for by other game, as deer.

To stall-feed with green food; feed for the purpose of fattening.

To solve; resolve.

To absolve; assoil.

noun. Any foul matter upon another substance; foulness.

noun. Stain; tarnish; spot; defilement or taint.

noun. Manure; compost. Compare night-soil.

noun. The ground; the earth.

noun. Land; country; native land.

noun. A mixture of fine earthy material with more or less organic matter resulting from the growth and decomposition of vegetation on the surface of the ground, or from the decay of animal matter (manure) artificially supplied.

noun. In soldering, a mixture of size and lampblack applied around the parts to be joined to prevent the adhesion of melted solder.

noun. Same as syle.

A dialectal variant of sile.

noun. A dialectal variant of sill.

To make dirty on the surface; dirty; defile; tarnish; sully; smirch; contaminate.

To dung; manure.

To take on dirt; become soiled; take a soil or stain; tarnish: as, silver soils sooner than gold.

noun. A young coal fish.

In plumbing, to paint (the ends of pipes about to be joined) by wiping (them) with soil. See soil, n., 4.

noun. undefined

transitive verb. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. Land; country.

noun. Dung; fæces; compost; manure.

noun. a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

transitive verb. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

noun. 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.

noun. to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter.

intransitive verb. To become soiled.

noun. That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

transitive verb. To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile.

transitive verb. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

noun. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.

noun. The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.

"It was quite clear that the plants as they died would _decay in very wet soil_, and so the conditions are very different from those we have just been studying where the plants _decay in soil that is only moist_."

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