transitive. To apply marl to (land); to improve (soil) with marl. Also: †to dig marl (obsolete). Also intransitive.

transitive. To mix or strew with chaff.

transitive. To mix or treat with chalk.

To treat or dress with lime. To dress (land, etc.) with lime. Also absol. Also to give (wood) a bleached effect by treating it with lime. Cf. limed…

To sprinkle or manure with soot.

To put sand upon (land) as a dressing.

(transitive) to fertilize (land) by burning straw upon it.

transitive. To fertilize (land) using manure made from sprats. Obsolete.

To dress with loam.

transitive. To treat with guano.

transitive to fertilize with guano; also figurative.

To provide with bone or bones. transitive. Agriculture. To fertilize (land) using chopped, crushed, or ground bones. Cf. bonemeal, n. Now rare.

(transitive) to manure with herring.