2. Verb. (third-person singular of soil) ¹
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Definition of Soils
1. soil [v] - See also: soil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soils
Literary usage of Soils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Table giving analyses of soils of Foothill Exper. Station. ... Analyses of soils
of sec. along Central Pacific RR, in Placer Co. (Same, 1888/9: 74.) . ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1852)
"The soils westward of this belt are calcareous, overlying limestone, and are composed
... The soils of each of these great divisions of Ohio are very varied ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Chemical analysis shows soils to be very variable in composition, ... For example,
German authorities classify soils on the basis of their chemical analysis ..."
4. Report (1905)
"In preparing an outline for the study of soils in rural schools, it is borne in
... There are likely to be in this lot of soils, sandy soils, loams, clays, ..."
5. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"In the soils and with the nitrogenous materials with which ... or slag meal can
be harvested 8-14 days sooner than those grown on untreated soils. ..."
6. The United States: A Graphic History by Louis Morton Hacker, Rudolf Modley, George Rogers Taylor (1891)
"It is important to compare these soils with those of other parts of the ...
A reference to the analyses given farther on, of four soils and subsoils from ..."