manure

The dung of livestock or poultry.

Such dung, or other organic or chemical material, used to fertilize soil.

To fertilize (soil) by applying material such as animal dung.

Any substance added to the soil with the view of rendering it more fertile; specifically, and as used in leases and other contracts relating to real property, the excrementitious product of live stock, with refuse litter, accumulated, and used for enriching the land.

1. To manage; regulate by care or attention.—2. To cultivate by manual labor; till; develop by culture.

To apply manure to; treat with a fertilizer or fertilizing materials or elements: as, to manure a field or a crop.

To serve as manure for.

The advent of commercial fertilizers has made it necessary to distinguish farm or natural manures and artificial manures. Recent usage tends to restrict the term manure to the former. In scientific agriculture, only those applications are properly manures which directly supply plant-food, and those which serve mainly to improve the soil physically (as gypsum, lime, marl) are distinguished as soil amendments or improvers. This distinction affects also, to some extent, the term fertilizer. See artificial manure.

Unfermented dung. Also called fresh or long manure.

Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance.