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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Manure

Ma-nūre', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. MANURED; p. pr. & vb. n. MANURING.] [Contracted from Fr. manœuvrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor; Norm. Fr. mainoverer, to manure. See MANEUVER.]

Sense 1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.]

Nor could they have slid into those brutish immoralities of life had they duly manured those first practical notions and dictates of right reason which the nature of man is originally furnished with. South.

Sense 2. To enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance; to make productive by compost, dung, or other like substances, animal or vegetable.

The corps of half her senate Manure the fields of Thessaly. Addison.

Ma-nūre', n.

noun

n. [From the verb. See supra.] Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barn yards, marl, ashes, decaying animal or vegetable substances, and the like.