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.