? Obs. [f. SOIL v.3]
1. The action of treating land with manure or compost; manuring, dunging.
1607. Norden, Surv. Dial., III. 112. Any Tin-mines,… Marle, or Chalke-pits, slimie or moorish earth, fit for soyling of land.
1665. Voy. E. India, 362. Which … doth so enrich their Land, which they never force … by Soyling of it.
1696. J. Cary, Ess. Coyn, 28. Well manured Lands, whose plentiful Crops do soon repay the Charge of Soiling laid out on them.
2. Manure; droppings of animals.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. x. 26. Plinie reports that Ashes are in such request for soylings neere vnto Po, that they burne their Horse-dung to make them.
1626. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 666. That Powdring [sc. dust], when a Shower commeth, maketh a kinde of Soyling to the Tree.
1789. Trans. Soc. Arts, I. 148. All of these, together with the subsequent soilings of the sheep, left the land in admirable condition.
