Definition of soil

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Soil (n.) 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..

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Smeary :: Smeary (a.) Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.
Contaminate :: Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile..
Assoil :: Assoil (v. t.) To solve; to clear up.
Sulphacid :: Sully (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
Assoil :: Assoil (v. t.) To remove; to put off.
Mellow :: Mellow (superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil..
Assoil :: Assoil (v. t.) To soil; to stain.
Dirty :: Dirty (v. t.) To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands..
Unfruitful :: Unfruitful (a.) Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort..
Lysimeter :: Lysimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.
Besmirch :: Besmirch (v. t.) To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
Sully :: Sully (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation..
Topsoiling :: Topsoiling (n.) The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.
Humus :: Humus (n.) That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.
Neat :: Neat (a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy..
Bedraggle :: Bedraggle (v. t.) To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc..
Ryot :: Ryot (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil.
Lord :: Lord (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor..
Merchet :: Merchet (n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters..
Sipage :: Sipage (n.) Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
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