LekhoriLekhoriA mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
We bought a bag of soil for the houseplants.
Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
To make dirty.
[…]Bad Fruit of Knowledge, if this be to know, / Which leaves us naked thus, of Honour void, / Of innocence, of Faith, of Puritie, / Our wonted Ornaments now ſoild and ſtaind, / And in our Faces evident the ſignes / Of foul concupiſcence ; whence eveil ſtore ; / Even ſhame, the laſt of evils ; of the firſt / Be ſure then.
From Middle English soile, soyle, sule (“ground, earth”), partly from Anglo-Norman soyl (“bottom, ground, pavement”), from Latin solium (“seat, chair; throne”), mistaken for Latin solum (“ground, foun...
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To become dirty or soiled.
Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
to soil a horse