Definition of matter

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

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Mass :: Mass (n.) A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water..
Fusteric :: Fusteric (n.) The coloring matter of fustet.
Rejectment :: Rejectment (n.) Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away..
Bodily :: Bodily (adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
Deutoplasm :: Deutoplasm (n.) The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk..
Premise :: Premise (n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted..
Maya :: Maya (n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion..
Sanious :: Sanious (a.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer..
Fluxure :: Fluxure (n.) Fluid matter.
Literal :: Literal (a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
By :: By (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc..
Phycoxanthine :: Phycoxanthine (n.) A yellowish coloring matter found in certain algae.
Syphering :: Syntonin (n.) A proteid substance (acid albumin) formed from the albuminous matter of muscle by the action of dilute acids; -- formerly called musculin. See Acid albumin, under Albumin..
Peptone :: Peptone (n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.
Unbolt :: Unbolt (v. i.) To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation.
Controvert :: Controvert (v. t.) To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.
Stethal :: Stet (v. t.) To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote..
Eleidin :: Eleidin (n.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
Adiaphoristic :: Adiaphoristic (a.) Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.
Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..
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