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Soil
Soil Soil, v. i.
To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark
ones.
Soil
Soil Soil, v. t.
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
Men . . . soil their ground, not that they love the
dirt, but that they expect a crop. --South.
SoilSoil Soil, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Soiling.] [OF. saoler, saouler, to satiate, F. so[^u]ler,
L. satullare, fr. satullus, dim. of satur sated. See
Satire.]
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure,
with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of
sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the
effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food;
as, to soil a horse. SoilSoil Soil, n. [OE. soile, F. sol, fr. L. solum bottom, soil;
but the word has probably been influenced in form by soil a
miry place. Cf. Saloon, Soil a miry place, Sole of the
foot.]
1. 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.
2. Land; country.
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee,
native soil? --Milton.
3. Dung; f[ae]ces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.
--Mortimer.
Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. SoilSoil Soil, v. t.[OE. soilen, OF. soillier, F. souiller,
(assumed) LL. suculare, fr. L. sucula a little pig, dim. of
sus a swine. See Sow, n.]
1. To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to
dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
--Milton.
2. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish;
to sully. --Shak.
Syn: To foul; dirt; dirty; begrime; bemire; bespatter;
besmear; daub; bedaub; stain; tarnish; sully; defile;
pollute.
Meaning of Soils from wikipedia
- in acid
soils.
Soil organisms are
hindered by high acidity, and most
agricultural crops do best with
mineral soils of pH 6.5 and
organic soils of pH 5...
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naturally saline soils. This is the case, for example, in
large parts of Australia.
Human practices can
increase the
salinity of
soils by the addition...
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soils have a pH
below 7 and
alkaline soils have a pH
above 7. Ultra-acidic
soils (pH < 3.5) and very
strongly alkaline soils (pH > 9) are rare.
Soil pH...
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number of
decisions that
depleted the
soils, including:
allowing herd
animals to
wander freely, not
replenishing soils with manure, and a
sequence of events...
- loading. This may
occur in all
soil types including dense soils. However, on
reaching a
state of zero
effective stress such
soils immediately dilate and regain...
- groups: (1) co****-grained
soils (e.g.
sands and gravels); (2) fine-grained
soils (e.g.
silts and clays); and (3)
highly organic soils (referred to as "peat")...
- capacity; however, the
fertility of
these soils can be
optimized with
liming and
other farming techniques. Red
soils are an
important resource because they...
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construction soil conditioning is also
called soil stabilization.
Soil conditioners can be used to
improve poor
soils, or to
rebuild soils which have been...
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Chernozemic soils are a
soil type in the
Canadian system of
soil classification and the
World Reference Base for
Soil Resources (WRB).
Chernozemic soil type...
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Australia for
soils with
contrasting texture between soil horizons,
although such
soils are
found in
other parts of the world.
Duplex soils are also termed...
