Definition of matter

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Matter (n.) Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite.

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Copy :: Copy (n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy..
Squib :: Squib (a.) A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack..
Nitrocalcite :: Nitrocalcite (n.) Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter..
Fuliginosity :: Fuliginosity (n.) The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.
Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.
Dust :: Dust (n.) A single particle of earth or other matter.
Leave :: Leave (v.) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators..
Plenist :: Plenist (n.) One who holds that all space is full of matter.
Spirit :: Spirit (n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter..
Skip :: Skip (v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over..
Melain :: Melain (n.) The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.
Superficiality :: Superficialist (n.) One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.
Scorification :: Scorification (n.) The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores..
Biology :: Biology (n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants..
Tear :: Tear (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins..
Xanthoprotein :: Xanthoprotein (n.) A yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. It is changed to a deep orange-yellow color by the addition of ammonia.
Sordes :: Sordes (n.) Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression..
Costiveness :: Costiveness (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
Chromule :: Chromule (n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals..
Neurine :: Neurine (n.) A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide..
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