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m. Timothy, cut young, the best of hay. North. Phleum pratense. Velvet grass, hay on poor soil. South. Holcus lanatus. Vernal grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Anthoxanthum odoratum. Wire grass, valuable in pastures. Poa compressa. Wood grass, Indian grass, hay. Chrysopogon nutans.

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

To sully or soil deeply; to dirt. Shak.

Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from. These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. A. Hamilton. -- To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children. -- To grow together, to cl…

Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as:

ally in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural. The habitants or cultivators of the soil. Parkman.

n native oyster. [Local, U. S.] - - Hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispute, etc. See Pan. -- Hard rubber. See under Rubber. -- Hard solder. See under Solder.…

r wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel grouse (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. That the spent earth may gather heart again. Dryden.

Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils. Graham.

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." Shak.

Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

y of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness. The infertility or noxiousness of the soil. Sir M. Hale.

Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. "Inky blots." Shak. "Its inky blackness." Boyle.

Between mountains; as, intermontane soil.

al kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! Spenser. There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. I Cor. xv. 39. Diogenes wa…

A low, spreading weed (Scleranthus annuus), common in sandy soil.