Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.
Mortimer.
Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
Soil, v. t. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
Men . . . soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that
they expect a crop.
South.
Soil, n. [OF. soil, souil, F. souille, from OF. soillier, F. souiller.
See Soil to make dirty.] 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.
As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft
sticks fast.
Marston.
To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or
shelter.
O, sir, have you taken soil here? It is well a man may reach you
after three hours' running.
B. Jonson.
Soil, v. t.[OE. soilen, OF. soillier, F. souiller, (assumed) LL.
suculare, fr. L. sucula a little pig, dim. of sus a swine. See Sow, n.]
1. To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to
defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
Milton.
2. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
Shak.
Syn. -- To foul; dirt; dirty; begrime; bemire; bespatter; besmear;
daub; bedaub; stain; tarnish; sully; defile; pollute.
Soil, v. i. To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark
ones.
Soil, n. [See Soil to make dirty, Soil a miry place.] That which soils
or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
A lady's honor . . . will not bear a soil.
Dryden.
Soil"i*ness (?), n. Stain; foulness. [R.] Bacon.
Soil"less, a. Destitute of soil or mold.
Soil"ure (?), n. [OF. soillure, F. souillure. See Soil to make dirty.]
Stain; pollution. Shak.
Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk.
Tennyson.
Soil"y (?), a. Dirty; soiled. [Obs.] Fuller.
||Soi`ree" (?), n. [F., fr. soir evening, fr. L. serus late, serum late
||time. Cf. Serenade.] An evening party; -- distinguished from levee,
||and matinée.
So"ja (s"j or s"y), n. (Bot.) An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine Soja)
the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.
So"journ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sojourned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Sojourning.] [OE. sojornen, sojournen, OF. sojorner, sejorner, F.
séjourner, fr. L. sub under, about + diurnus belonging to the day. See
Journal, Diurnal.] To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as
a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a
permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
Gen. xii. 30.
Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn.
Chaucer.
The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned
three days.
Hayward.
So"journ, n. [Cf. OF. sujurn, sujur, sejor, F. séjour. See Sojourn, v.
i.] A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Though long detained In that obscure sojourn.
Milton.
So"journ*er (?), n. One who sojourns.
We are strangers before thee, and sojourners.