Manures vs Manurey - What's the difference?
manures | manurey |
As a verb manures is ( manure). As an adjective manurey is covered in, or characteristic of, manure.
manures English
Verb
(head)
(manure)
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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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manurey English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Covered in, or characteristic of, manure.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 12, author=Robin Finn, title=Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight, work=New York Times citation
, passage=“I was never competitive in the girly sense; I was a tomboy, on all the sports teams, and I started riding at 3 and kept on riding whatever pony my sister grew out of,” she says, trying to wrestle the muddy, possibly manurey football she found in her bed from the jaws of her bull terrier, Mabel. }}
* 2005 , J. P. S. Brown, Ladino (page 144)
- The rainwater was accumulating in deep manurey puddles around the barn and stables.
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