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Soil

SOIL, v.t.
1. To make dirty on the surface; to foul; to dirt; to stain; to defile; to tarnish; to sull; as, to soil a garment with dust. Out wonted ornaments now soil'd and stain'd.
2. To cover or tinge with any thing extraneous; as, to soil the earth with blood.
3. To dung; to manure.
TO SOIL A HORSE, is to purge him by giving him fresh grass.
TO SOIL A CATTLE, in husbandry, is to feed them with grass daily mowed for them, instead of pasturing them.
SOIL, n.
1. Dirt; and foul matter upon another substance; foulness; apot.
2. Stain; tarnish. A lady's honor will not bear a soil.
3. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance with furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particulary adapted to support and nourish them.
4. Land; country. We love our native soil.
5. Dung; compost. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.
TO TAKE SOIL, to run into the water, as a deer when pursued.
soil appears in definitions for these words:
Agriculture Alluvial Amber Answer Assoil Aurochs Bad Barren Barrenness Bedaggle Bedaggled Bedaub Bedraggle Bedraggled Bedraggling Bedust Befoul Begrease Begrime Begrimed Bemire Bemoil Beray Beslime Beslubber Besmear Besmeared Besmearing Besmirch Besmoked Bespatter Bespattered Bespattering Bespawl Bespirit Better Black Black-chalk Blacked Blacken Blemished Chess Common Composture Congenial Cope Culture Deep Defile Defiled Depauperate Deposition Dingy Dirt Dirty Dryness Earth Even-tide Experience Fat Fertile Fertility Fertilize Feud Filth Fineness Fleet Formative Foster-earth Foul Franktenement Fruitful Garbles Garden Geoscopy Glebe Good Goodness Gravelly Grime Ground Grow Grub Heaviness Heavy Hungry Infertile Intermontane Iridium Kind Land Limy Loam Maintain Meadow Meager Meliorate Mire Miserabale Mold Mole Mother Muddy Native Pan Poach Poorness Price Produce Property Racy Reason Reeky Regenerate Rich Riches Root Sandy Scurf Sentinel Serf Several Singularity Slimy Slop Slur Smear Smeared Smearing Smeary Smirch Smutty Snuffy So Soil Soilless Solidate Solidity Sooted Soul Specify Spend Sportful Spot Stain Sterility Sterilize Stern Stiffen Subsoil Sullied Sully Sullying Sun-burnt Superficial Sward Sweeten Tarnish Teat Thrive Thum Tillage Tormentor Unblenched Undersoil Understratum Unfouled Unfruitful Ungenial Ungrateful Unimproved Unsmirched Unsoiled Untarnished Variation Variety Vegetation Vegetative Virgin Warp Water-melon Weak White-land White-rent Wood-land

 

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