Soil
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Land; country.
(2): ( n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
(3): ( v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
(4): ( n.) 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.
(5): ( n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
(6): ( v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
(7): ( v. t.) 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.
(8): ( n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
(9): ( n.) 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.
(10): ( n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To make dirty on the surface to foul to dirt to stain to defile to tarnish to sull as, to soil a garment with dust. Out wonted ornaments now soil'd and stain'd. 2. To cover or tinge with any thing extraneous as, to soil the earth with blood. 3. To dung to manure.
