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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
admixture, ammonia, castor-bean meal, commercial fertilizer, commixture, composite, compound, dressing, dung, enrichener, fertilizer, fusion, guano, immixture, interfusion, intermixture, manure, mix, muck, night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, organic fertilizer, phosphate, superphosphate
Dictionary Results for compost:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
compost
    n 1: a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a
         fertilizer
    v 1: convert to compost; "compost organic debris"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Compost \Com"post\, v. t.
   1. To manure with compost.
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   2. To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass
      where they will decompose and form into a compost.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Compost \Com"post\ (?; 277), n. [OF. compost, fr. L. compositus,
   p. p. See Composite.]
   1. A mixture; a compound. [R.]
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            A sad compost of more bitter than sweet. --Hammond.
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   2. (Agric.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a
      composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime,
      and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as
      in a compost heap.
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            And do not spread the compost on the weeds
            To make them ranker.                  --Shak.
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