Definition of soil

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Soil (n.) 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..

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Strain :: Strain (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil..
Underdrain :: Underdrain (n.) An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
Thrive :: Thrive (v. i.) To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil..
Churlish :: Churlish (a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals..
Fellah :: Fellah (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc..
Unimproved :: Unimproved (a.) Not tilled, cultivated, or built upon; yielding no revenue; as, unimproved land or soil..
Avulsion :: Avulsion (n.) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner..
Glebe :: Glebe (n.) Turf; soil; ground; sod.
Lysimeter :: Lysimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.
Listing :: Listing (n.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops..
Soil :: Soil (n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
Bedraggle :: Bedraggle (v. t.) To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc..
Fat :: Fat (superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture..
Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.
Superfine :: Superficies (n.) A real right consisting of a grant by a landed proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong resemblance to the long building leases granted by landholders in England, in consideration of a rent, and under reservation of the ownership of the soil..
Soil :: Soil (v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
Mire :: Mire (v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.
Begrime :: Begrime (v. t.) To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
Pervious :: Pervious (a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil..
Sipage :: Sipage (n.) Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
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