Meaning of માટી in English

A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
To cover or manure with clay.
To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.
A native house servant in India.
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
Land; country.
Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.