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DARKENS |
Soils |
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DIRTIES |
Soils |
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SOIL |
That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain. |
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FILTH |
Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt;
nastiness. |
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NEAT |
Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean;
cleanly; tidy. |
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SPOT |
A stain on character or reputation; something that soils
purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. |
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SWEETEN |
To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry
and sweeten soils. |
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FLOCCULATION |
The process by which small particles of fine soils
and sediments aggregate into larger lumps. |
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BLUE GRASS |
A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green
stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass. |
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HUMUS |
That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of
animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils. |
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LEACHY |
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of
retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils,
and the like. |
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ANSWER |
To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment,
reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum
answers as a manure on some soils. |
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MALARIA |
Air infected with some noxious substance capable of
engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils,
as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma. |
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AUGER |
An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for
determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata
upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. |
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AMBER |
A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a
fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in
many places. I... |
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SALTPETRE |
...stance,
KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain
soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (se... |