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uished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison.

Having a site; situated. [Obs.] [The garden] sited was in fruitful soil. Chaucer.

The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines. [Local, U. S.]

other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Cudworth.

To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. Shak.

Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous. Rowe.

To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully. I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak.

To smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face.

To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred. C. A. Young.

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

Soiled with smut; smutted.

Soiled with snuff.

That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. Collins.

Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.

To make cold and unproductive, as soil. Mortimer.

Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

A species of mint (Mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.

as there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and the uses of their soils are specified. Pope.