manured English
Verb
(head)
(manure)
Anagrams
*
*
*
*
manure English
Verb
( manur)
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
* Surrey
- to whom we gave the strand for to manure
* John Donne
- Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
- The farmer manured his fallow field.
* Shakespeare
- The blood of English shall manure the ground.
Derived terms
* manurable
See also
* to fertilize
Noun
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
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Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not.
* Sir Humphry Davy
- Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure ; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.
Derived terms
* humanure
See also
* fertilizer
* muck
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manred English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) manred, manrede, from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)
* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)
Noun
(-)
Homage.
Vassals collectively; the supply of men a lord can call upon in time of warfare.
:* {{quote-book
, year=2009
, year_published=
, edition=
, editor=
, author=Eric William Ives
, title=Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
, chapter=The March on Framlingham
citation
, genre=
, publisher=John Wiley and Sons
, isbn=9781405194136
, page=203
, passage=There he was joined by his sons and addition troops, almost certainly more of the Dudley manred from the Midlands.
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The position of leader among fighting men; the conduct (of an army).
Carnal intercourse.
The solemn undertaking to be one's faithful supporter, and the obligation so constituted.
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)
(mythology) primal substance of the Universe
:* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, year_published=
, edition=
, editor=G. De Purucker
, author=Kennth Morris
, title=Theosophical Path Magazine, January to June 1930
, chapter=Druidism
citation
, genre=
, publisher=Kessinger Publishing
, isbn=9780766180734
, page=131
, passage=They were made of the manred''''', that is, of the elements in the extremities of their particles and smallest atom … God was in each of the particles of the '''''manred , ...
}}
:* {{quote-book
, year=2004
, year_published=
, edition=
, editor=
, author=Lewis Spence
, title=An Introduction to Mythology
, chapter=The Celtic Idea of the Origin of Man
citation
, genre=
, publisher=Cosimo, Inc
, isbn=9781596050563
, page=169
, passage=God pronounce his ineffable name, and Manred', the primal substance of the Universe, was formed. ' Manred was composed of thousands of teeming atoms in each of which God was present, and each was part of God.
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