The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
Country or territory.
The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
Dung; compost; manure.
The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
A bag containing soiled items.
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.
A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
To make invalid, to ruin.
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 enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
To make dirty.
To become dirty or soiled.