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An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert.

Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." Milton.

A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

(a) To give back; to return. We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them. Shak.

underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.

Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.

The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.

g; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.

Not tilled, cultivated, or built upon; yielding no revenue; as, unimproved land or soil.

Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.

Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold. "Virgin Dutch." G. W. Cable. The white cold virgin snow upon my heart. Shak. A few ounces of mutton, with a little virgin oil. Landor.

A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. Lyell.

A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.

combined carbon. -- White iron pyrites (Min.), marcasite. -- White land, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. [Eng.] -- White lark (Zoöl.), the snow bunting. -- White lead. (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. (b) (Min.) Native lead carbon…

Containing the remains of organized bodies; -- said of rock or soil.