Definition of soil

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Soil (v. t.) 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..

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Stool :: Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Cledgy :: Cledgy (a.) Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil..
Slop :: Slop (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
Fork :: Fork (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil..
Harrow :: Harrow (n.) An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown..
Prairie :: Prairie (n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains..
Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels..
Blur :: Blur (v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink..
Spearmint :: Spearmint (n.) A species of mint (Mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha..
Geoscopy :: Geoscopy (n.) Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection..
Blue Grass :: Blue grass () A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass..
Sulphacid :: Sully (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
Brackish :: Brackish (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil..
Agricolist :: Agricolist (n.) A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist.
Inky :: Inky (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black..
Fine :: Fine (a.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil..
Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
Assoilment :: Assoilment (n.) Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal..
Easement :: Easement (n.) A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude..
Swarded :: Sward (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
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