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Webster 1913 Edition

manure

ma-nure′

(mȧ-nūr′)
,
Noun.
Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance.
Especially,
,
dung, the contents of stables and barnyards, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Manure

MANU'RE

,
Verb.
T.
[L.manus, hand, and ouvrer, to work, L. operor.]
1.
To cultivate by manual labor; to till.
[In this sense not now used.]
2.
To apply to land any fertilizing matter, as dung, compost, ashes, lime, fish, or any vegetable or animal substance.
3.
To fertilize; to enrich with nutritive substances.
The corps of half her senate
Manure the fields of Thessaly.

MANU'RE

,
Noun.
Any matter which fertilizes land, as the contents of stables and barnyards, marl, ashes, fish, salt, and every kind of animal and vegetable substance applied to land, or capable of furnishing nutriment to plants.

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