Soil
Bible Usage:
- soil used once.
- Bible Reference: Ezekiel 17:8
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
Strongs Concordance:
- H7704 Used 1 time
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.
SOIL'ED, participle passive Fouled; stained; tarnished; manured; fed with grass.
SOIL'INESS, noun Stain; foulness. [Little used.]
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.
SOIL'LESS, adjective Destitute of soil.
SOIL'URE, noun Stain; pollution [Not in use.]