manures

Verb

manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)

1. (archaic, literary) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
   • A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter...
2. To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
   • The farmer manured his fallow field.

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