Crossword clues for manure
manure
- Organic farmer's need
- Garden fertilizer
- Any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material
- Lawn enrichment
- Manchester United are crap
- What's produced by horse eating a couple of nuts?
- Fellow clean, having removed soft muck
- Dung as fertiliser
- Fertilizer ingredient
- Nursery purchase
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
manure \ma*nure"\ (m[.a]*n[=u]r"), n.
Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing
substance. Especially,, dung, the contents of stables and
barnyards, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "to cultivate land," also "to hold property," from Anglo-French meynoverer, Old French manouvrer "to work with the hands, cultivate; carry out; make, produce," from Medieval Latin manuoperare (see maneuver (n.)). Sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1590s) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested 1540s. Until late 18c., however, the verb still was used in a figurative sense of "to cultivate the mind, train the mental powers."It is ... his own painfull study ... that manures and improves his ministeriall gifts. [Milton, 1641]\nRelated: Manured; manuring.
"dung or compost used as fertilizer," 1540s, see manure (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens. 2 Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not. vb. 1 To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. 2 To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
WordNet
n. any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material
v. spread manure, as for fertilization [syn: muck]
Wikipedia
Manure is organic matter, mostly derived from animal feces except in the case of green manure, which can be used as organic fertilizer in agriculture. Manures contribute to the fertility of the soil by adding organic matter and nutrients, such as nitrogen, that are trapped by bacteria in the soil. Higher organisms then feed on the fungi and bacteria in a chain of life that comprises the soil food web. It is also a product obtained after decomposition of organic matter like cow dung which replenishes the soil with essential elements and add humus to the soil.
In the past, the term “manure” included inorganic fertilizers, but this usage is now very rare.
Usage examples of "manure".
Columns of sunlight tunneled through the smoke inside the woods, and the air smelled of cordite, horse manure, trees set on fire from fused shells, and humus cratered out of the forest floor.
They hauled black dirt from the cane fields and mixed it in the wagon with sheep manure and humus from the swamp, then filled the beds with it and planted roses, hibiscus, azalea bushes, windmill palms, hydrangeas and banana trees all around the house.
In fact, mangels make good manure, and good manure makes good mangels.
But, what I mean, is this: Where land has been heavily manured for some years, we could often raise a good crop of cabbage by a liberal dressing of available nitrogen, and still more frequently, if nitrogen and phosphoric acid were both used.
It was too wet and the crops of wheat when highly manured were much laid.
After the first crop of grass, and perhaps the second, which was in favor of the manured portion, the succeeding crops of hay and clover seed, have been decidedly better on the boned part of the field.
The manured part affords good pasture, but is quite inferior to the boned, which would give a fair crop of hay, and probably three times as much grass as the two lands with guano.
The guanoed portion continued at harvest to be decidedly better than that manured from the barn yard and stable.
It has now been pastured freely during two summers, and been exposed to the action of the frosts of two winters, and upon the guanoed portion I have not yet seen a single clover root thrown out of the ground, while from the part manured from the barn yard, it has almost entirely disappeared.
Another advantage will arise from the fact that such seeds will be found entirely free from weeds, as none grow after a few years upon land manured only with guano.
It is a well authenticated fact, that birds wont touch the manured wheat, while they can obtain that which is much more plump and rich where guano has been applied.
On land that has been very highly manured for a series of years, cabbage can be planted nearer than on land that has been under the plow but a few years.
I have known other instances where soil, naturally quite strong, and kept heavily manured for a series of years, has shown stump-foot when cabbage were planted, with intervals of two and three years between.
The ground should be richly manured, and deeply and thoroughly worked.
Mississippi River that in many instances better crops will be obtained from poor soils well manured than from good soils unmanured.