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e of artificial heat. Forcing bed or pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed. -- Forcing engine, a fire engine. -- Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use consi…

To manure; to improve. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ntation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes. Ayliffe. Bouvier.

Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield. [Scotland] Jamieson.

Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris. Shak.

To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them. Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. Sir J. Child.

Relating to manures.

The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.

Dung in a moist state; manure. Bacon.

A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied beetles.

), the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom.

, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.

A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

Dung; fæces; compost; manure; as, night soil. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils. Mortimer. Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.

To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]