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[muh-noor, -nyoor]

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noun

excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.

any natural or artificial substance for fertilizing the soil.

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verb (used with object)

to treat (land) with fertilizing matter; apply manure to.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English manouren to till, cultivate < Middle French manouvrer to do manual work. See maneuver

Related forms

ma·nur·er, noun

ma·nu·ri·al, adjective

ma·nu·ri·al·ly, adverb

well-ma·nured, adjective

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Their milk is trucked away regularly, but their liquefied manure is stored in a reservoir with earthen walls.

Three weeks later, the same fellow walks back into the same bar, again with a bucket of manure and his shotgun.

After all, there is more than enough sun, wind and manure to go around.

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Their milk is trucked away regularly, but their liquefied manure is stored in a reservoir with earthen walls.

Three weeks later, the same fellow walks back into the same bar, again with a bucket of manure and his shotgun.

After all, there is more than enough sun, wind and manure to go around.

Scientists have discovered how to convert abundant, cheap, and smelly pig manure into crude oil.

Much more green than a water hog and a waste of perfectly good manure.

She fertilizes with composted steer manure and alfalfa pellets.

Water contaminated by manure from a nearby dairy barn seeped into a well that provided water to the fair.

The piece also gets into the use of manure as a natural fertilizer.

Instead you are buzzing around pollinatng the next manure heap.

But they also fitted neatly with the chickens, who feed on olive pulp and in turn provide manure to feed the trees.

Manure from animals including cows, horses, chickens and even bats is a traditional and effective fertilizer.

Remember, for every pearl on the ocean floor, there is one ton of whale manure.

Water them well after planting and top them with a mulch of well-composted manure.

Manure has some nitrogen in it, which is why it was used on fields.

We must have been wading through invisible, knee-high piles of mite manure and molecules of cat.

Homemade hoop houses are heated in the winter with composting manure.

The organic movement will scoff, too, saying synthetic fertilisers can be replaced by manure and legumes.

Even livestock manure can contain pathogens and requires special handling.

The pig can better absorb phosphorus from its food, reducing the phosphorus content of its manure.

Amend soil with compost or well-rotted manure to ensure a long harvest.

They say the process is inefficient, polluting and wasteful, as the manure is better suited for fertilizer.

It means something much simpler: a manure catcher mounted in the rigging behind the horse.

The preferred agricultural activity is dairy farming, leading to huge production of both milk and manure.

Top the compost with an optional layer of finished compost or composted manure.

Most of it comes from manure and chemical fertilizer as well as industrial processes.

Too much nitrogen or manure will result in excessive top growth and cause forking of roots.

We either rotated other crops with legumes or used the nitrogen left over from animal digestion as manure.

But the farm is also part of a growing alternative energy program that converts the methane gas from cow manure into electricity.

Neither a break crop of legumes, nor manure was the answer, since both demanded precious acres to produce.

Manure from rabbits, sheep, goats and chickens contains abundant nitrogen.

It is cheaper to extract methane from natural gas underground and biogas manure than from the atmosphere.

In late winter, side-dress planting with cottonseed meal or chicken manure.

They place a shovelful of manure in the pits, then wait for rain.

The dairy farmers may truly want this new development to be driven by policy, but please think of the manure issue it will create.

Farmers put manure and seeds in the holes and could once again grow millet and sorghum.

We also did have a successful compost pile where the chicken manure was placed.

Manure has to be handled in an environmentally acceptable way and at an acceptable cost.

Surely manure has been widely used as a fertiliser for millenia.

Manure reduces the oxygen level in water, harming dragonfly larvae.

The way farmers handle animal manure can also have an effect on global warming.

Examples include manure and plant parts such as leaves and peanut hulls.

Additionally, livestock manure and belching release methane.

There during the night, it is reckoned, they drop a ton of manure from insects they consumed during the day.

Unlike solar or wind, power from manure can create more environmental problems than it solves and is a poor source of energy.

Manure is being turned into electricity, which is sold back to the local utility.

They use crop cover to minimise erosion and plough manure into the soil to build it up again.

Flatus and manure from animals contain not only methane, but also nitrous oxide, an even more potent warming agent.

Organic methods, which rely on crop rotation, manure and compost in place of.

When it rains, the rainwater washes substances in the manure into the soil.

Then by converting manure into something which has a value, the process pays for itself".

High-phosphorus manure can induce algal blooms in waterways.

There's something wonderful about a nation that would look at a large body of liquid manure and call it a lagoon.

Amendments should include well-rotted manure and compost or soil conditioner.

Officials said the amount of manure taken in would be relatively small.

Mulch, manure and organic weedkillers are also used.

On a warm day this fall, the air was ripe with the smell of fresh-cut hay and manure.

Pollution with sewage or manure runoff can cause microbial contamination of drinking water.

She has done research on the energy potential and environmental effects of converting livestock manure to biogas.

By then, plants, soil and sacks of manure cover the.

It threatens the environment, because of huge concentrations of animal manure and lax regulation.

Improve the soil with compost, manure and other organic material, which will also help retain moisture and promote sturdy plants.

We walk to a shallow, muddy hole-more of a large puddle, with lumps of cow manure bobbing about-and remove our clothes.

Gibbs said, the smell of manure heavy in the still.

Fertilize every few weeks with manure tea or liquid fertilizer, until buds appear.

They swing into cul-de-sacs lined with new colonial-style houses, only a strong air gust away from a whiff of cow manure.

He dug out a three-foot-wide bed next to the limestone, adding about two feet of aged manure and compost.

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World English Dictionary

manure (məˈnjʊə)

—n
1.	animal excreta, usually with straw, used to fertilize land
2.	chiefly (Brit) any material, esp chemical fertilizer, used to fertilize land

—vb
3.	(tr) to spread manure upon (fields or soil)

[C14: from Medieval Latin manuopera; manual work; see manoeuvre]

ma'nurer

—n

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Word Origin & History

manure

c.1400, "to cultivate land," also "to hold property," from Anglo-Fr. meynoverer, from O.Fr. manouvrer "to work with the hands," from M.L. manuoperare, from L. manu operari, from manu, abl. of manus "hand" (see manual) + operari "to work, operate" (see

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operation). Sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1599) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested 1549. Until late 18c., however, the verb still was used in a fig. sense of "to cultivate the mind, train the mental powers."

"It is ... his own painfull study ... that manures and improves his ministeriall gifts." [Milton, 1641]

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