Definition of "nightsoil" [nightsoil]

• Alternative spelling of night soil. (noun)

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• "In Jerusalem, with its fetid atmosphere of intellectual decay, everyone, from the master and his wife to the nightsoil man who empties the college privies, has their eye on the main chance."
• "Or, as another wonderful character in The Echo Chamber, Nikolas the nightsoil worker, puts it, a book with "a kind of conversation inside"."
• "" She even considers the beneficial effects of nightsoil on vegetables: " I do remember with pleasure all the beautiful vegetables raised in China because they used human manure, which seems to be the best of all."