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Definition of Manure
Manure

To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.

Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.

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Manure Quotations

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
Theodore Bikel

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
Beck

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound

Manure Translations

manure in Dutch is mest
manure in French is fumier, engrais
manure in Latin is fimus


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