Definition of Soil

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Definition of Soil

Soil

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.

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.

Land; country.

Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.

To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.

To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.

To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.

That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

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Soil Quotations

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
James Madison

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles Spurgeon

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
James Allen

Soil Translations

soil in Afrikaans is aarde, besoedel, grond
soil in Dutch is fond, ondergrond, bodem, grond, aarde
soil in German is beschmutze, Boden, Boden, verschmutzen
soil in Italian is terra, insudiciare, suolo
soil in Latin is terra, solum
soil in Portuguese is terra, solo
soil in Spanish is tierra, enlodar, ensuciar

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