Manured vs Unmanured - What's the difference?
manured | unmanured |
(manure)
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
Not manured.
*, II.31:
*:Architas Tarentinus returning from a war, where he had beene Captaine generall, found his house all out of order, husbandrie all spoiled, and by the ill government of his Bailife, his ground all waste and unmanured .
As a verb manured
is past tense of manure.As an adjective unmanured is
not manured.manured
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* * * *manure
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(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.