soiling, soilure, dirtying
(noun) the act of soiling something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
soilure (plural soilures)
Making or becoming dirty; soiling, staining.
• louries, lousier
Source: Wiktionary
Soil"ure, n. Etym: [OF. soillure, F. souillure. See Soil to make dirty.]
Definition: Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 April 2025
(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
