manure

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: muck

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material

Verb (1)

  1. spread manure, as for fertilizationSynonyms: muck
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

manure \ma*nure"\ (m[.a]*n[=u]r"), n. Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance. Especially,, dung, the contents of stables and barnyards, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Manure \Ma*nure"\ (m[.a]*n[=u]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manured (m[.a]*n[=u]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Manuring.] [Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. man[oe]uvrer. See Manual, Ure, Opera, and cf. Inure.]

1.To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

To whom we gave the strand for to manure.— Surrey.[1913 Webster]
Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved.— Donne.[1913 Webster]

2.To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance. [1913 Webster]

The blood of English shall manure the ground.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
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