Manure

Definition: Manure

Manure

Noun

1. Any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material.

Verb

1. Spread manure, as for fertilization.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "manure" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Weather

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Manure

Agriculture

Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset.

Aid

Cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame.

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Crosswords: Manure

You know, one of those manure spreaders jackknifed on the Santa Ana. God-awful mess (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

Don't tell me you believe this horse manure! (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

When you consider the other choices, manure is actually pretty refreshing (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You know manure. (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

Humans are machines for generating manure. (Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things; writing credit: Bob Clark; Alan Ormsby)

Even in a pile of manure, a flower will grow. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Seeders, Planters, Transplanters, Fertilizer Distributors, and Manure Spreaders Excluding Hand Tools: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Agriculture and the Environment - Minerals, Manure and Measures (reference)

• Animal Manure on Grassland and Fodder Crops. Fertilizer or Waste (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences) (reference)

• Animal Waste Utilization: Effective Use of Manure as a Soil Resource (reference)

• Earthen Manure Storage Design Considerations (Nraes (Series), 109.) (reference)

• Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stereopathetic Soul Manure (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A total of 10,00 turkeys are raised in each building in Benton, Arkansas. Manure and wood chips used for bedding are then composted and used for fertilizer on adjacent pastures. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Concrete-lined manure storage pond with cattle barn and push-off slope. Newaygo County, Michigan. Credit: Fred Gasper.

Proper waste management on the farm for environmental protection. Landowner and NRCS staff check manure spreader in northern Louisiana. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Dairy Waste Management--Waste Treatment Lagoon. Containing manure and using it on the farm. East Loiusiana. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Yamilette Suarez, NRCS Agricultural Engineer, and dairy farmer, York County, PA, discuss the construction of a manure storage tank on dairy farm. [Slide 97CS3107]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Dairy manure storage structure. Credit: Katherine Gugulis.

Roofed and concrete wall solid manure stacking facility with settling basin and filter strip. Resource Conservationist Tom Adams and landowner in foreground. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Cows in lot with excessive manure buildup. Montcalm County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Oscar Stevens (left) and Craig Odell (right), NRCS, District Conservationist discuss the benefits of composting chicken manure. Stevens is collecting a sample for nutrient analysis. Credit: USDA.

Manure Recycling. Credit: USDA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly

As I saw no manure, I judged that they meant to skim the land, as I had done, thinking the soil was deep and had lain fallow long enough

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Health

Vegetables can become contaminated from the soil or from manure used as fertilizer. (references)

Unpasteurized milk can become contaminated if the cow has an infection with Campylobacter in her udder or the milk is contaminated with manure. (references)

Business

Much of the waste and by-products arising on farms consists of biodegradable organic matter such as manure, slurry, and silage effluent and crop residues. (references)

Conventional manure spreaders continued to decrease due to the appearance on the market of machines with vertical beaters, which represented 53% of total sales. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "manure": artificial manure ♦ barn manure ♦ barn yard manure ♦ barnyard manure ♦ chemical manure ♦ chicken manure ♦ cow manure ♦ farmyard manure ♦ fold yard manure ♦ green manure ♦ horse manure ♦ liquid manure ♦ manure effluent ♦ manure heap ♦ manure spreader ♦ stable manure. Additional references.

Beginning with "manure": manure-encrusted, manure-spreading.

Ending with "manure": town-manure.

Albanian

plehëroj (dung, fertilize), pleh organik, pleh kafshësh (dung). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سماد (compost, dressing, muck), ‏سمد (dress, fertilize), ‏روث (dropping, droppings, dung, muck, turd). (various references)

Bulgarian 

торя (compost, dress, dung, fat, fertilize, muck, nourish), тор (dressing, fertilizer, ordure, soil), наторявам (nourish, sweeten). (various references)

Chinese 

肥料 (fertilizer). (various references)

Czech

hnojit (fertilize, muck), hnùj (dung, muck). (various references)

Danish

gødning (fertilizer). (various references)

Dutch

mest (fertilizer). (various references)

Esperanto

sterko (fertilizer). (various references)

Faeroese

tøð (fertilizer). (various references)

Farsi 

کودکشاورزی , کوددادن (Compost, Dung). (various references)

Finnish

lanta (droppings, dung, excrement). (various references)

French

fumier, engrais. (various references)

Frisian

dong (fertilizer). (various references)

German

Mist (blow, bother, cobblers, crap, droppings, dung, fertilizer, garbage, muck, punk, rats, rubbish, shucks, trash, tripe), Dünger (dung, fertilizer, manures), Dung (dung, muck), düngen (fertilize). (various references)

Greek 

κοπριά (dung, muck), λίπασμα (fertiliser, fertilizer). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזבל (fertilize), ל�"שן (fertilize), זבל (compost, dung, excrement, garbage, ordure, rubbish, trash), �"שן (abundance, creamy, fatness, fertile, fertilizer, oil, plump). (various references)

Hungarian

trágya (chip, dung, excrement, fertilizer, muck, ordure), ganéj (chip, dung, muck). (various references)

Indonesian

memupuk (cultivate, fertilize, foster), pupuk (compost, fertilizer). (various references)

Italian

letame (dung, muck), concime (compost, dung, muck). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

肥料　 (fertilizer), 肥料 (fertilizer), 肥やし (dung, fertiliser, night soil), 肥 (dung, fertiliser, night soil), 積み肥 (compost), 廐肥 (compost), 下肥 (night soil). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうひ (compost, provision of expenses, scholarship), しも�"え (night soil), ひりょう (fertilizer), つみ�"え (compost), �"やし (dung, fertiliser, night soil), �"え (dung, fertiliser, night soil, voice). (various references)

Korean 

두엄. (various references)

Manx

toarrey (dung, stools), toarraghey (manuring), lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season), lhiasagh (amends, atonement, compensation, recompense, redress, reparation, reprisal, retribution, revisionary), eoylley (excrement, faeces, fertilizer), eoyllaghey (dung, manuring). (various references)

Papiamen

mèst (fertilizer). (various references)

Pig Latin

anuremay.(various references)

Portuguese

estrume (chip, fertilizer), esterco (dirt, dung, fertilizer, muck, ordure, scat), adubo (compost). (various references)

Romanian

gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), bãlegar (muck, ordure), îngrãşãmânt (dressing, fertilizer, soil), îngrãşa (batten, cram, fatten, fertilize, plump). (various references)

Russian 

навоз (dung, muck, ordure). (various references)

Scottish

todhar (a field manured by, dung), leasaich (correct, cultivate, improve, rectify), innear (dung), aolach (dung). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nađubriti (fertilize, muck, top dress), đubriti (dung, fertilize). (various references)

Spanish

estiércol (dung, muck, ordure), abono (compost, deposit, dressing, fertilization, fertilizer, guarantee, manuring, payment, receipt, season ticket, subscription). (various references)

Sranan

doti (dirty, earth, fertilizer, filthy, land, nasty, soil, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Swedish

gödsel (dung), gödsla (dung, fertilize, muck), dynga (dung, fertilizer, muck, ordure). (various references)

Turkish

gübrelemek (compost, dung, fatten, fertilize, muck), gübre (cowpat, dressing, droppings, dung, fertilizer, muck, ordure, plant-food, soil). (various references)

Turkmen 

dцkьn (nightsoil). (various references)

Ukrainian

угноювати (muck, soil), удобрювати (fertilize, hearten, nourish), гній (atter, dung, matter, muck, ordure, purulence, pus, soil), добриво (fertilizer). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phân bón. (various references)

Welsh

teilo (dung), tail (dung), gwrteithio (cultivate, culture), gwrtaith (culture), achlesu (protect, shelter, succor), achles (protection, refuge). (various references)

lum. (various references)

fimus, stercore, stercoris, stercus. (various references)

manouvrer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "manure": manured, manurer, manurers, manures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Manure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amnure, amure, anuer, Kanturek, Maamur, macure, madurai, majure, makura, Manarov, Manburon, Mancur, manera, manere, maneuer, maneure, maniere, Mannari, manora, manouvre, Mantree, manuar, manuer, manule, Manura, manurra, manyear, manzur, Maouri, maquerel, Masurel, mauer, maur, maure, maury, Mayuree, Mazure, Mazuri, Meanguera, Menabrea, menue, menuer, Menura, menure, meure, minere, Monaru, Monzur, Mujuru, munera, Nanura. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: namer, ramen, reman, rumen, unarm.

-2 letters: amen, arum, earn, mane, mare, maun, mean, menu, mura, mure, name, near, nema, neum, ream, rune, urea.

-3 letters: amu, ane, are, arm, ear, eau, emu, era, ern, mae, man, mar, men, mun, nae, nam, ram, ran, rem, rue, rum, run, urn.

-4 letters: ae, am, an, ar, em, en.

+1 letter: duramen, enamour, fraenum, humaner, manured, manurer, manures, maunder, neuroma, numeral, surname, unarmed, unmaker.

+2 letters: aneurism, aneurysm, argentum, argument, duramens, enamours, fraenums, geranium, maneuver, manicure, manurers, maunders, menstrua, mensural, muraenid, neuromas, numeracy, numerals, numerary, numerate, penumbra, prehuman, ramentum, ramequin, routeman, ruminate, superman, surnamed, surnamer, surnames, underarm, undreamt, unframed, unharmed, unmakers, unmarked, unmarred, unmasker, unwarmed, urinemia.