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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Soil

The Bible

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Soil

SOIL, verb transitive

1. To make dirty on the surface; to foul; to dirt; to stain; to defile; to tarnish; to sull; as, to soil a garment with dust. Out wonted ornaments now soil'd and stain'd.

2. To cover or tinge with any thing extraneous; as, to soil the earth with blood.

3. To dung; to manure.

TO soil A HORSE, is to purge him by giving him fresh grass.

TO soil A CATTLE, in husbandry, is to feed them with grass daily mowed for them, instead of pasturing them.

SOIL, noun

1. Dirt; and foul matter upon another substance; foulness; apot.

2. Stain; tarnish. A lady's honor will not bear a soil

3. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance with furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particulary adapted to support and nourish them.

4. Land; country. We love our native soil

5. Dung; compost. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.

TO TAKE SOIL, to run into the water, as a deer when pursued.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Soiled

SOIL'ED, participle passive Fouled; stained; tarnished; manured; fed with grass.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Soiliness

SOIL'INESS, noun Stain; foulness. [Little used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Soiling

SOIL'ING, participle present tense Defiling; fouling; tarnishing; feeding with fresh grass; manuring.

SOIL'ING, noun The act of practice of feeding cattle or horses with fresh grass, instead of pasturing them.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Soilless

SOIL'LESS, adjective Destitute of soil.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Soilure

SOIL'URE, noun Stain; pollution [Not in use.]


The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

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