| • | To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure,
   with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them
   out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to
   purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse. | 
											
															| • | The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound
   substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly
   adapted to support and nourish them. | 
											
															| • | Land; country. | 
											
															| • | Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil. | 
											
															| • | To enrich with soil or muck; to manure. | 
											
															| • | 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 dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty;
   to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust. | 
											
															| • | To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to
   sully. | 
											
															| • | To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark
   ones. | 
											
															| • | That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain. |