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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Moor :: Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..
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..
Water Furrow :: Water furrow () A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry..
Pan :: Pan (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard..
Smudginess :: Smudginess (n.) The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Assoilzie :: Assoilzie (v. t.) Alt. of Assoilyi.
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..
Hungry :: Hungry (superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil..
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..
Poverty :: Poverty (n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas..
Pineweed :: Pineweed (n.) A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States..
Brackish :: Brackish (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil..
Swarded :: Sward (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
Aerate :: Aerate (v. t.) To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water..
Bespit :: Bespit (v. t.) To daub or soil with spittle.
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss.
Malaria :: Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma..
Serf :: Serf (v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia..
Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
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