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Soil - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Soil : (noun)
1: the state of being covered with unclean things [syn: dirt,
filth, grime, stain, grease, grunge]
2: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and
disintegrated rock [syn: dirt]
3: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in
which plants can grow (especially with reference to its
quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good
agricultural soil" [syn: land, ground]
4: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign
state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"
[syn: territory]
(verb)
1: make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when
you play outside!" [syn: dirty, begrime, grime, colly,
bemire] [ant: clean]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Soil : \Soil\, v. i.
To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark
ones.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Soil : \Soil\, n. [See Soil to make dirty, Soil a miry place.]
That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
A lady's honor . . . will not bear a soil. --Dryden.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Soil : \Soil\, v. t.
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
Men . . . soil their ground, not that they love the
dirt, but that they expect a crop. --South.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Soil : \Soil\, n. [OF. soil, souil, F. souille, from OF. soillier,
F. souiller. See Soil to make dirty.]
A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for
refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought
for by other game, as deer.
As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still
the shaft sticks fast. --Marston.
To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take
refuge or shelter.
O, sir, have you taken soil here? It is well a man
may reach you after three hours' running. --B.
Jonson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Soil : \Soil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Soiling.] [OF. saoler, saouler, to satiate, F. so[^u]ler,
L. satullare, fr. satullus, dim. of satur sated. See
Satire.]
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure,
with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of
sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the
effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food;
as, to soil a horse.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Soil : \Soil\, n. [OE. soile, F. sol, fr. L. solum bottom, soil;
but the word has probably been influenced in form by soil a
miry place. Cf. Saloon, Soil a miry place, Sole of the
foot.]
1. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound
substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is
particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
2. Land; country.
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee,
native soil? --Milton.
3. Dung; f[ae]ces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.
--Mortimer.
Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Soil : \Soil\, v. t.[OE. soilen, OF. soillier, F. souiller,
(assumed) LL. suculare, fr. L. sucula a little pig, dim. of
sus a swine. See Sow, n.]
1. To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to
dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
--Milton.
2. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish;
to sully. --Shak.
Syn: To foul; dirt; dirty; begrime; bemire; bespatter;
besmear; daub; bedaub; stain; tarnish; sully; defile;
pollute.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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SOIL. The superficies of the earth on which buildings are erected, or may be
erected.
2. TheSoil : is the principal, and the building, when erected, is the
accessory. Vide Dig. 6, 1, 49.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Soil |
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