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▪ I. guano, n.|ˈgwɑːnəʊ, gjuːˈænəʊ|
Also 8–9 guana.
[Sp. guano, S. Amer. Sp. huano, ad. Quichua huanu dung.]
1. A natural manure found in great abundance on some sea-coasts, esp. on the Chincha and other islands about Peru, consisting of the excrement of sea-fowl.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxxvii. 311 They are heapes of dung of sea-fowle..They cal this dung Guano. 1669Earl of Sandwich tr. Barba's Art Metals 16 It is called Guano (i.e. Dung), not because it is the Dung of Sea-fowls (as many would have it understood), but because of its admirable vertue in making ploughed ground fertile. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 170 Cormorants dung, which the Spaniards call Guana. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 346 The seed was drilled in with 2 cwt. guano, and a cart load of mould mixed together per acre. 1876Page Adv. Text-Bk. Geol. xx. 430 The guano of the Pacific and other tropical islets, so valuable as manure.
fig.1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 314 The German and Irish millions, like the Negro, have a great deal of guano in their destiny. 1870‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage 16, I find soda-water and brandy the best guano for the cultivation of my intellect.
2. transf. Artificial manure, esp. that made from fish, called more fully fish-manure or fish-guano.
1844Emerson Lect., Yng. Amer. Wks. (Bohn) II. 301 Agricultural chemistry..offering by means of a tea-spoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 202 Fertilizers in the preparation of which fish are used, including Menhaden guano, crude and ground, guano made from fish skins, and from fish heads and bones. 1888Pall Mall G. 30 Aug. 2/2 Converting the bottle-nosed whale into patent guano.
3. A general name for sea-birds which produce guano. ? Obs. [This is in Sp. guanae, pl. guanaes: cf. guanay.]
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 101 [They] found multitudes of Guanoes, and Land-turtle or Tortoise, and named them the Gallapago's Islands. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 190 Isles Lobos... Here are also plenty of Guanoes and carrion-crows. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) II. 104 Innumerable flights of birds with which all those islands abound and commonly called Guanoes..; many of them are indeed alcatraces, a kind of gull, though all comprehended under the generical name of Guanoes.
4. attrib., as guano-island, guano-manure, guano-water.
1844Catholic Weekly Instructor 64 It is said, more than 300 vessels from Liverpool are engaged in the guano-manure trade. 1851Beck's Florist 199 Guano-water improves wonderfully the colour of the flowers and the general health of the plants. 1858Cycl. Commerce (ed. Homans) 899 The claim of the Peruvians to the exclusive possession of the guano islands.
Hence ˈguano v. trans., to fertilize with guano. Also fig.
1847Disraeli Tancred ii. ix, Lady Constance..having guanoed her mind by reading French novels, had a variety of conclusions on all social topics. 1856Olmsted Slave States 43 The ground is..again guanoed, two hundred weight to the acre. 1865Spectator 18 Feb. 176 He announced that he intended to guano the public mind.
▪ II. guano
variant of guana. |