Definition of matter

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Matter (n.) Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble..

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Inducement :: Inducement (n.) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.
Inoculation :: Inoculation (n.) The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh..
Phenicine :: Phenicine (n.) A coloring matter produced by the action of a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids on phenylic alcohol.
Humus :: Humus (n.) That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.
Garnishment :: Garnishment (n.) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter..
Materiated :: Materiated (a.) Consisting of matter.
Trash :: Trash (v. t.) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush..
Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
Rubbish :: Rubbish (n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris..
Economy :: Economy (n.) The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy..
Excreta :: Excreta (n. pl.) Matters to be excreted.
State :: State (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited..
Breadroot :: Breadroot (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food..
Saprophytic :: Saprophytic (a.) Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
Particle :: Particle (n.) A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust..
Brazen :: Brazen (v. t.) To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through..
Remembrancer :: Remembrancer (n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time..
Ether :: Ether (n.) Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
Toadstool :: Toadstool (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter..
Trial :: Trial (n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue..
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