noun
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Manure; animal excrement.
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A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
verb
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To fertilize with dung.
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(calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
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To release dung: to defecate.
Examples of dung in a Sentence
Maintain the heat in hotbeds and pits by means of fresh dung linings.
Toward evening of the third day we even found fairly fresh dung.
Tracks of forest buffalo have also been seen once (and dung too ).
In the middle is a stove where they burn the yak dung.
Many bacteria are known which are capable of denitrification, some of them being abundant in fresh dung and upon old straw.
Myxococcus digelatus,bright red fructification occurring on dung (X 120).
Provision is also made for enforcing the removal of accumulations of manure, dung, soil or filth from any premises in an urban district, and for the periodical removal of manure or other refuse from mews, stables or other premises.
The further suggestion has been made that zebul itself in the sense of "dung" is a term for a heathen deity, cf.
In the wild, tortoises are opportunistic feeders and they will on occasion tackle carrion and dung.
Most of it is finely comminuted and resembles sheep/goat dung.
Cattle dung is no longer stored in the home, but is fed directly to the biogas digester along with toilet waste.
The cow dung attracts insects which provide a food source for the bats.
A carefully constructed mound of dried dung provides fuel that would also once have come at the expense of local trees.
Players then have to spread the dung on their plants to see how much food they can produce for the village.
The cows were facing the wall and a large gutter served to collect both cow dung and bedding straw.
The largest party seen in 2003 was of 13 feeding among cattle dung on 4 October.
These pellets have been soaked in real lion dung - cats are terrified of lions.
Tomorrow I'm having a trailer full of horse dung delivered from a local farm.
But the African dung beetle seems to have even more remarkable skills.
My Annual Predictions based on the chi at dung gee, as written out above, follow shortly.
This means both the heap of dung and the coarse grasses that grow from that heap of dung and the coarse grasses that grow from that heap.
The word started life meaning dung heap, then later refuse or rubbish heap.
It should then be thrown together in ridges and frequently turned, so as to be kept in an incipient state of fermentation, a little dryish friable loam being mixed with it to retain the ammonia given off by the dung.
From the Valley Gate the wall took an easterly course for a distance of woo cubits to the Dung Gate, near which on the east was the Fountain Gate, not far from the lower pool of Siloam.
Some of the scavengers, like the burying beetles, inter the bodies of small vertebrates to supply food for themselves and their larvae, or, like the "sacred" beetle of Egypt, collect for the same purpose stores of dung.
The chief and almost the only use of dung, he thinks, is to divide the earth, to dissolve " this terrestrial matter, which affords nutriment to the mouths of vegetable roots "; and this can be done more completely by tillage.
The phosphatic deposit has doubtless been produced by the long-continued action of a thick bed of sea-fowl dung, which converted the carbonate of the underlying limestone into phosphate.
The cultivation of vines in pots is very commonly practised with good results, and pot-vines are very useful to force for the earliest crop. The plants should be raised from eyes, and grown as strong as possible in the way already noted, in rich turfy loam mixed with about one-third of horse dung and a little bone dust.
It has long been known that when organic materials such as the dung and urine of animals, or even the bodies of animals and plants, are applied to the soil, the nitrogen within them becomes oxidized, and ultimately appears in the form of nitrate of lime, potash or some other base.
Lime also assists in the decomposition of the organic matter or humus in the soil and promotes nitrification; hence it is of great value after green manuring or where the land contains much humus from the addition of bulky manures such as farm-yard dung.
The dried dung of the llama (taquia) is generally used as fuel, as in pre-Spanish times, for roasting ores, as also a species of grass called ichu (Stipa incana), and a singular woody fungus, called yareta (Azorella umbellifera), found growing on the rocks at elevations exceeding 12,000 ft.
Of clay and earthenware there were many varieties of domestic dishes, cups and pipkins, and crucibles or melting pots made of clay and horse dung and still retaining the drossy coating of the melted bronze.
The dung of black cattle, horses, sheep, goats, &c., which contains sal ammoniac ready formed, is collected during the first four months of the year, when the animals feed on the spring grass, a kind of clover.
Nauseous flowers, dull and yellowish and dark purple in colour and often spotted, with a smell attractive to carrion flies and dung flies, e.g.
Sometimes various lichens occur abnormally in such unexpected habitats as dried dung of sheep, bleached bones of reindeer and whales, old leather, iron and glass, in districts where the species are abundant.
When the heat of the original bed subsides, linings of fermenting dung must be added, and these must be kept active by occasional turnings and the addition of fresh material as often as required.
When heat is required, it is sometimes supplied by means of fermenting dung, or dung and leaves, or tanner's bark, but it is much more economically provided by hot-water pipes.
Plant houses were formerly heated in a variety of ways - by fermenting organic matter, such as dung, by smoke flues, by steam and by hot water circulating in iron pipes.
A single crock may be used in some cases, and in others no crock at all, but a handful of half-decayed leaves or half-decayed dung thrown into the bottom of the pot.
Shallow planting, whether of wall trees or standards, is generally to be preferred, a covering of a few inches of soil being sufficient for the roots, but a surface of at least equal size to, the surface of the hole should be covered with dung or litter so as to restrain evaporation and preserve moisture.
Force asparagus, rhubarb and sea-kale, in the mushroomhouse, in pits, or in the open border under boxes or cases surrounded and covered by well-fermented stable dung and leaves.
The floors, mostly of mud covered with dung, are fouled with spittle, vomit, and urine, and, being seldom or never cleaned out, foster a gradual accumulation of poison, to which infected rats and the concealment of illness contribute.
As a god of agriculture, especially connected with manuring the soil, he is called the son of Stercutus (from stercus, dung, a name of Saturn).
Numerous dung beetles were also recovered from the floor deposits.
Scrape / remove dung from channel at least once daily.
You may find yourself gathering camel dung to put on the fire.
Seventy fat hogs made in 4 months, 106 large loads of fine dung.
The infective oocysts or eggs are passed in the dung and develop quickly in warm situations to become infective oocysts or eggs are passed in the dung and develop quickly in warm situations to become infective.
Tapeworm eggs are passed out in the dung and eaten by a microscopic mite which lives on the pasture.
Characteristic for cows is their fluid dung, in contrast to the solid dung of other ruminants like sheep or deer.