MANURE
Source: 560, 566, 567
MANURE. → Used as fertilizer Isa 25:10; Lu 13:8; 14:34,35
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manure. Manure, v.t. to dung, to enrich; n. soil for land
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Ma‐nure″ (mȧ‐nūr″), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Manuring.] [[Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. manœuvrer. See Manual, Ure, Opera, and cf. Inure.]] 1. 1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne. 2. 2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.
The blood of English shall manure the ground. Shak.