Word Meanings - SOILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dirty; soiled. Fuller.
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- SOILY
Dirty; soiled. Fuller. - SOILURE
Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson. - SOIL PIPE
A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. - SOIL
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence , to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse. - SOILLESS
Destitute of soil or mold. - FULLERY
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on. - DIRTY
1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser. 2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke. 3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's - SOILINESS
Stain; foulness. Bacon. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - TOPSOIL
The upper layer of soil; surface soil. - ASSOILZIE; ASSOILYIE
To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott. - ASSOIL
1. To set free; to release. Till from her hands the spright assoiled is. Spenser. 2. To solve; to clear up. Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle. Bp. Jewel. 3. To set free from guilt; to absolve. Acquitted and assoiled from the guilt. - TOPSOILING
The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun. - ASSOILMENT
Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal. - SUBSOIL
The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil. Subsoil plow, a plow having a share and standard but no moldboard. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow, and loosens the soil to an additional depth without - ALKALI SOIL
Any one of various soils found in arid and semiarid regions, containing an unusual amount of soluble mineral salts which effloresce in the form of a powder or crust in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly - FREE-SOIL
Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856. -- Free"soil`er, n. -- Free"-soil`ism, n.