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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Manure  \Ma*nure"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Manured};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Manuring}.]  [Contr,  from  OF  manuvrer,  manovrer  to  work 
  with  the  hand,  to  cultivate  by  manual  labor,  F.  man?uvker. 
  See  {Manual},  {Ure},  {Opera},  and  cf  {Inure}.] 
  1.  To  cultivate  by  manual  labor;  to  till;  hence  to  develop 
  by  culture.  [Obs.] 
 
  To  whom  we  gave  the  strand  for  to  manure.  --Surrey. 
 
  Manure  thyself  then;  to  thyself  be  improved;  And 
  with  vain,  outward  things  be  no  more  moved  --Donne. 
 
  2.  To  apply  manure  to  to  enrich,  as  land,  by  the  application 
  of  a  fertilizing  substance. 
 
  The  blood  of  English  shall  manure  the  ground. 
  --Shak.




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