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richer
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rich \Rich\, (r[i^]ch), a. [Compar. Richer ; superl. Richest .] [OE. riche, AS. r[=i]ce rich, powerful; akin to OS. r[=i]ki, D. rijk, G. reich, OHG. r[=i]hhi, Icel. r[=i]kr, Sw. rik, Dan. rig, Goth. reiks; from a word meaning, ruler, king, probably borrowed ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: rich ).
Usage examples of richer.
If we introduced lucern, Italian rye-grass, corn-fodder, and mangel-wurzel into the rotation, we should need still richer land to produce a maximum growth of these crops.
The untilled and unmanured grass lands of Herkimer County, in this State, are no richer to-day than they were 50 years ago.
In other words, the food of the horse is usually richer in the valuable elements of plant-food than the ordinary food of the cow.
Feed the stock better, make richer manure, and then it will pay to bestow a little labor in taking care of it.
But if the manure is poor, consisting largely of straw, it will be very desirable to make it richer by mixing with it bone-dust, blood, hen-droppings, woollen rags, chamber-lye, and animal matter of any kind that you can find.
If our grain-growing farmers can keep up the fertility of their land, as they undoubtedly can, the dairymen ought to be making theirs richer and more productive every year.
It is not phosphates that the dairyman needs so much as richer manure.
If they eat as much hay or grass as their stomachs are capable of holding, we must endeavor to give them richer hay or grass.
Our climate is better than our farming, the sun richer than our neglected soil.
England may be able to produce more grass per acre in a year than we can, but we ought to produce richer grass, and, consequently, more cheese to a cow.
We have a shorter season but a brighter sun, and if we do not have richer grass it is due to the want of draining, clean culture, and manuring.
The accumulated fertility in the land could then be made available by good tillage, and from that day to this, his land has been growing richer and richer.
It is richer land to-day than when first plowed, while there is one field that for seventy years has had no manure applied to it, except plaster.
Whether the clover allowed to grow for seed, was on the richer or poorer half of the field, we are not informed.
But that may be because the soil happened to be richer on this part of the field.