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▪ I. manuring, vbl. n.|məˈnjʊərɪŋ|
Forms: see the vb.
[f. manure v. + -ing1.]
†a. Occupation, tenure.
†b. Cultivation, tillage.
c. Fertilization by means of manure; † occas. concr. = manure.
1436Rolls of Parlt. IV. 500/1 Fermours, and other men that usyn menuryng of lond. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §204 (1877) 116 Parte of them may be put to tylth, manuring and habitacion. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 80 Couer it either with olde doung, or with the newest of any other kind of mannering. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 629 Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green..That mock our scant manuring. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 110 Almost every family have all the necessaries of life of their own manuring and feeding. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 216 In every system of manuring, the chemical composition of the manure is that which constitutes its agricultural importance.
attrib.1849J. F. W. Johnston Exp. Agric. 97 It may not be the same..with other manuring substances.
▪ II. maˈnuring, ppl. a.
[f. manure v. + -ing2.]
That manures, in various senses of the vb.
1635Swan Spec. M. vi. §2 (1643) 202 When their Nilus overflowed or when it first began to diffuse an ample portion of manuring bountie into the lap of the land. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. vi. Wks. 1851 III. 125 The manuring hand of the Tiller. a1647Habington Surv. Worcs. in Worcs. Hist. Soc. Proc. ii. 218 Chaunging..thys shyre from a wildernes of savage beastes to the freedome of manurynge husbandry. |