- Desiring food - Famished - Ravenous - Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling
uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager
desire. - Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. - Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a
hungry soil.
- Decomposed leaves, etc - Organic matter - Organic matter in soil - Rich soil - That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of
animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.
- Fertile soil - Rich soil - Rich, dust like soil - Windblown loamy deposit - A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish
earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.
- Earthy deposit - Fertile soil - To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a
pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. - A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime,
clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly
designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand. - To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.