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Manure vs Muckworm - What's the difference?

manure | muckworm |

As nouns the difference between manure and muckworm

is that 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 while muckworm is a larva living in mud or manure.

As a verb manure

is to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

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.
  • * '>citation
  • 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

    muckworm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A larva living in mud or manure.
  • Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.
  • *{{quote-book, 1748, , The Castle of Indolence, chapter=Canto I citation
    • , passage=Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree.}}
  • *{{quote-book, 1840, , The Writings of Douglas Jerrold, chapter=The Money-Lender, page=279 citation
    • , passage=We have painted one Money-Lender — not the mere sordid muckworm of a century ago, but the man-eater of the present day. }}
  • *{{quote-book, 1993, Marlene Suson, The Lily and the Hawk, page=158 citation
    • , passage=Perhaps it is far too expensive for a notorious muckworm like you! I, however, am more generous. }}