manure

t. [A contracted form of maneuver (q. v.).] 1. To work with the hand; to till, to cultivate. "It [Japan] is mountainous and craggy, full of rocks and stony places, so that the third part of the empire is not inhabited or manured ."-Memorials of Japan ( Hack luyt Society), p. 3. *2. To manage, to administer. "It is gouerned, administered, and manured by three sorts of persons." -Smith : Commonwealth, bk. i., ch. xxiii. 3. To enrich as soils with fertilizing substances, as dung, guano, ashes, lime, vegetable, or animal refuse, .; to dre with manure. "The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it."- Smith : Wealth of Nations, bk. i., ch. xi., p. 307.