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al labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne.

Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.

One who manures land.

ulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. Do the strings answer to thy noble hand Dryden.

Manured with bone; as, boned land.

ich oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.

To manure with chalk, as land. Morimer.

To cover or manure with clay.

to pasture on public commons. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. Blackstone.

tilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Shak.

Manure; compost. [Obs.] Shak.

al, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. -- To dig in, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.(b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare. Also figuratively, esp. in the phrase to dig in one's heels.

Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

To manure with dung. Dryden.

A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.

To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

f setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue. Ure.

That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.

Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.