Manure vs Manurial - What's the difference?
manure | manurial |
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
* Surrey
* John Donne
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
* Shakespeare
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
* '>citation
Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not.
* Sir Humphry Davy
Of or pertaining to manure.
:He wrinkled his nose at the manurial smell coming from the garden.
As a verb manure
is to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.As a noun manure
is animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.As an adjective manurial is
of or pertaining to manure.manure
English
Verb
(manur)- to whom we gave the strand for to manure
- Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
- The farmer manured his fallow field.
- The blood of English shall manure the ground.
Derived terms
* manurableSee also
* to fertilizeNoun
- 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.