different between manure vs manurial

English

Etymology

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin man? (“by hand”) + oper?r? (“to work”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??nj??/, /m??nj??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??n(j)??/
• Hyphenation: ma?nure
• Hyphenation: ma?nu?re
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)

1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
   • 1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward

     Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.

2. To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

Derived terms

• manurable

Translations

See also

• to fertilize

Noun

manure (countable and uncountable, plural manures)

1. Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
2. Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
   • a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint):

     Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.

3. (euphemistic) Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
   • 2005, Ginny Aiken, Design on a Crime (page 217)

     “You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
     “What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”

Derived terms

• humanure

Translations

See also

• fertilizer
• muck

English

Etymology

manure +? -ial

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m?.?n??.i.?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?.?nj???.?.?l/, /m?.?nj???.??l/

Adjective

manurial (comparative more manurial, superlative most manurial)

1. Of or pertaining to manure.
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXVI, [1]

     I understood from Anscra that all the filth and refuse of the settlement—except a certain portion kept for manurial purposes, and sent to the plantation—was thrown into this torrent nightly and swept perhaps hundreds of miles away.

   • 1917, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

     Birds' dung has been held in high regard since time immemorial as a fertiliser, and the fact that this wonderful new manure was composed of birds' dung, and had a strong manurial smell, undoubtedly helped it to come rapidly into favour among farmers.

References

• manurial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “manurial”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000