An earthy deposit, typically loose and unconsolidated and consisting chiefly of clay mixed with calcium carbonate, formed in prehistoric seas and…

The pulpy matter remaining after a substance has been pressed to extract the oil or juice.

The head of a cod, used as a food item or ingredient, and also as an agricultural fertilizer in coastal areas.

ashes which have served for making lye, formerly used as manure.

= buck-ashes n. at buck, n.3 compounds 2.

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…

With plural agreement. The fibrous matter or skin found in animal fat, which forms a sediment on melting and is pressed into cakes to serve as meat…

As a count noun (usually in plural): a flat cake made of pressed rapeseed after the oil has been extracted from it, used as fertilizer or as food for…

Any substance used as a fertilizer. Obsolete.

a portion of wool nipped off a sheep in branding.

compost made of rotten willow-branches.

(a) = green manure n.; (b) = green manuring n.

a powder consisting of finely crushed or ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer and in animal feed; cf. bonemeal, n.

powdered bone.

Manure made from dried and powdered human excrement, usually mixed with another substance such as charcoal or gypsum.

ground or crushed bone, esp. used for industrial purposes or as a fertilizer; cf. bonemeal, n.

a crop which is ploughed or dug into the ground while still growing in order to replenish nutrients and improve soil structure.

a manure or fertilizer composed of fish.

The stems of seaweed used as a manure.

broken mortar from old walls, etc., used as a dressing for land.

Bude-burner n. a gas-burner invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (who resided at Bude), consisting of several concentric argand rings. Bude-light n.…

A substance made by powdering, burning, or otherwise processing a bone or bones, and used as a material or ingredient, esp. (in early use) in…

A fertilizer made by grinding up horseshoe crabs (Limulus).

(plural) fragments of bone used as manure (distinguished from bone-dust: cf. 1c).

A coarse powder consisting of crushed or ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer and in animal feed.

a fine white sand used in horticulture, etc.

= fish-manure n.

In extended uses. English regional (Yorkshire). Material consisting of the dirt, grease, and loose fibres washed out of sheep's fleeces during…

An ammoniacal earth found in the valley of the Po, in Italy, and collected as a fertilizer; it occurs in flat mounds, identified as the sites of…

Hydrous chlorosulphate of magnesium and potassium, found esp. in Germany and Russia, largely used as a fertilizer.

(a) = fish-meal n.; (b) ‘a dry inodorous fertilizer made from fishes, used for manure’ (Cent. Dict.).

(See quots.)

fish refuse, used as a fertilizer.

lime which has been used to purify coal gas, typically used for dressing soil.

a material consisting of compressed beans, or some substitute, deprived of oil, used in China as a food and fertilizer.

A preparation of beneficial microorganisms (originally nitrogen-fixing bacteria) used for the treatment of seeds and soil or for various other…