siderate

siderate (plural siderates)

1. A plant that is grown alongside a crop in order to improve its growth; A companion crop.
   • 1964, An experiment in soil survey of collective farm lands, page 77:

     The annual and perennial lupine and sweet clover may be regarded as the best siderates.

   • 1991, Studies on Soviet Economic Development - Volume 2, page 78:

     New types of mineral fertilizers, higher quality organic matter, and other biological means of compensating for the lost nutrients (including siderates) can reduce the required amounts of mineral fertilizers.

   • 1995, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zhuchenko, Strategy of adaptive intensification of agriculture, page 52:

     In such situation, environment-forming possibilities of crop rotations (including perennial legume herbs, siderates, after-harvest cultures, etc.) and different soil cultivation techniques (which may either attenuate or on the contrary to significantly increase the variegation of fields) play a peculiar role in the SAR "formation".

siderate (third-person singular simple present siderates, present participle siderating, simple past and past participle siderated)

1. To strike down or incapacitate.
   • 1880, The Chicago Medical Review - Volumes 1-2, page 125:

     When it is impossible to use the protoxide either alone or according to the method of M. Bert, recourse may be had to the mixed method, which consists in siderating the patient with the protoxide and continuing the anesthesia with ether or chloroform.

   • 2001, Cheval Et Différences: It's the Horse that Makes the Difference:

     This is done in order to put the horse in a state of action inhibition (i.e. siderating the animal) before putting the saddle on and mounting.

   • 2013, Philip Purvis, Masculinity in Opera, →ISBN, page 114:

     Besides intercourse (when the Image-repertoire goes to the devil), there is that other embrace, which is a motionless cradling: we are enchanged, bewitched: we are in the realm of sleep, without sleeping; we are within the voluptuous infantilism of sleepiness: this is the moment for telling stories, the moment of the voice which takes me, siderates [i.e. strikes] me, this is the return to the mother ('in the loving calm of your arms,' says a poem set to music by Duparc).

• readiest, seriated, steadier