soimonite

[Etym. doubtful.] Min.: A blue aggregate of barsowite and corundum (q. v.), occurring as pebbles in the gold-washings of Barsowska, Urals, and known there under 2. To take soil. [SOIL (1), 8. , 4.] "Norman's Grove, where the deer soiled ."- Field , Dec. 12, 1883. s011 (2), soyl (1), v . t. [O. Fr. saoler, saouler (Fr. soûler)=to glut, cloy, fill, satiate, from saol , saoul (Fr. soût )=full, cloyed, satiated, from Lat. satullus , dim in. from satur full, satiated.] To feed, as cattle or horses, in the stalls or stables, with fresh gra daily mowed, instead of putting out to pasture-which mode of feeding tends to keep the bowels lax; hence, to purge by feeding upon green food. "The fitchew, nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite."- Shakesp .: Lear , iv. 6. *s611 (3), soyl (2), v . t . [A contraction of a oil (q. v.).] To a oil, to release, to explain. "Let vs consider how substanciallye the man soyleth the first reason, that he woulde were rekened so lyghte." -Sir T. More: Works , p. 626. s011 (1), s. [SOIL (1), v.] 1. A foul spot, a stain; any foul matter; foulne , dirt. "Wash them and make them clean from the soil which they have gathered by traveling."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. ii. *2. A stain, a tarnish; any defilement or taint. "A lady's honor must be touched, Which, nice as ermines, will not bear a soil ." Dryden. (Todd.) *3. A wallowing-place for swine. 4. A marshy, wet, or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, wet places, streams, or water sought by other game, as deer. *5. Dung, compost. "Improve land by dung and other sort of soils ."- Mor . timer: Husbandry. To take soil : To run into water or a marshy place, as a deer when pursued; hence, to take refuge or shelter. "Cro ed it and Mr. Samuel's land to the brook, where he took soil ."- Field , April 4, 1885. soil-pipe, s. A pipe for conveying foul or waste water, night-soil, ., from a dwelling-house or other building. soil (2), *soile, *soyle, s . [O. Fr. soel , suel , sueil =the threshold of a door, from Lat. sole a =acov. ering for the foot, a sole, the sole of the foot, timber upon which wattled walls are built; Low Lat. sole a soil, ground; Fr. sol =soil.] 1. Chem. & Agric .: The top stratum of the earth's crust, whence plants derive their mineral food. It also contains a certain proportion of humous substances derived from the decayed organic matter of plants which have grown on it. This acts the part of a weak acid, and po e es the property of decomposing salts, as sulphates of ammonia, potash, ., retaining the base, and giving up its lime or magnesia to the mineral acid. The humous principles also yield, under the oxidizing action of the air, ammonia, carbonic acid gas, and nitrates for the nutriment of the plant. [SUBSOIL.] Soils are cla ified according to their chief ingredients, as loamy, clayey, sandy, chalky, and peaty. The first is the best for most purposes, but the others may be improved by the addition of the constituents of which they are deficient. "The vine is more affected by the difference of soils soiree (as swâ-rê'), s . [ Fr.soirée evening tide, from soir evening, from Lat.ser us =late: Ital.sera =evening.] Properly an evening party held for the sake of conversation only; now applied to various kinds of evening parties, at which ladies and gentlemen meet, whatever may be the amusements introduced. The word is frequently employed to denote a meeting or reunion of the members of certain societies or bodies and their friends, for the promotion of the objects of their a ociations, and for mutual improvement and discu ion, when tea, coffee, and other light refreshments are provided during the intervals of music, speech-making, .