manure(2) (iou) and repercussion (iou)

manure(2) (iou)

manure verb. LME.

verb trans. Hold or occupy (land, property); have the tenure of; administer, manage. LME-M17.
b. verb trans. & intrans. Live in or in (a place). L16-L17.
verb trans. Orig., till, cultivate (land). Later spec., enrich (land) with manure; apply manure to; supply with fertilizing material. LME.
b. Improve or develop (the body, mind, etc.) by Training. M16-L18.
c. Promote the growth of, cultivate (a plant). L16-M18.
d. verb intrans. Apply manure. M19.
verb trans. Work on with the hands; handle. LME-L16.
manurement noun cultivation (lit. & fig.) M17-E18.
manurer noun L15.

repercussion (iou)

repercussion noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French repercussion or Latin repercussio(n-), formed as REPERCUSS: see -ION.]
Medicine. The action of repressing infections, eruptions, etc. LME-E18.
The action or power of driving back an advancing force. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
Repulse or recoil of a thing after impact; the fact of being forced back by a resisting body. M16.
b. Medicine. = BALLOTTEMENT. M19.
a. Reflection of a sound; (an) echo, (a) reverberation. M16.
b. Music. In a fugue: the reentrance of the subject and answer after an episode. L19.
Reflection of or of light. Now rare. E17.
fig.: Coleridge Our election from God is the repercussion of the beams of his love shining upon us.
A blow given in return; fig. a return of any kind of action, a responsive act. E17.
S. Johnson Tenderness once excited will be..increased by the..repercussion of communicated pleasure.
An effect, esp. one distant from the event which caused it; an unintended or indirect consequence. Usu. in pl. E20.
J. Berger Political and diplomatic repercussions of..frontier incidents might..prove disastrous. M. Lane These beginnings were to have..repercussions on Maria's later life.

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