dung

The other investigated fossilized dung, known scientifically as coprolites.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Every passing vehicle had to be sprayed with a chemical solution to stop the spread of the virus, which can remain up to six months in cow dung.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

“Powdered stone worked. So did lizard’s blood and crocodile dung, and pig’s teeth and dolphin’s genitalia and frog’s sperm,” as psychologist Irving Kirsch later explained it.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026

"I remember standing in my cowshed and saying to my wife 'one day I'm going to work for the Queen' and we were surrounded by cow dung and stalls."

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

A faint, foul smell of horse dung drifted from the boy.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

He seldom sat down, but strayed about with nervous movements, picking dungs up and setting them down without looking at them, walking to windows and looking out but seeing nothing.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

When it was gone, hot not before, the Wart knew certain dungs about it—dungs which he had not had time to notice while the boar was there.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Like the guanaco of South America, the wild stallion always dungs in one particular spot, near the watering-place, so that when hunting them we always looked out for and inspected these little hillocks.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson

He is like a horse in a pasture, that eats up the grass and dungs it in requital.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Besides, we have heats of dungs; and of bellies and maws of living creatures, and of their bloods and bodies; and of hays and herbs laid up moist; of lime unquenched; and such like.

From New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

The soil from which he bloomed was richly dunged.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018

Hast thou been digg'd about and dunged too, Will neither patience nor yet dressing do?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

It is fixed by oxidation at 30° to 35° C., and dunged with cow-dung and chalk.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 by Various

And 'twas with justice too; did they not break down my black fig tree, which I had planted and dunged with my own hands?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

As the King of Cambaya was one day riding in state, an unlucky kite dunged upon his royal head.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

A man with expense and infinite toil, By digging and dunging, ennobled his soil; There fruits of the best your taste did invite, And uniform order still courted the sight.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning

His digging about it, and dunging of it, is to show his willingness to apply gospel helps to this barren professor, if haply he may be fruitful.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

And thus much for the fashion, digging, and dunging of gardens.

From The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

In respect to the beaver dunging in their houses, as some persons assert, it is quite wrong, as they always plunge into the water to do it.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

And so I ought," answered Sancho; "for some of your worship's wisdom must needs stick to me; as dry and barren soil, by well dunging and digging, comes at last to bear good fruit.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra