Definition of matter

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

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Begrease :: Begrease (v. t.) To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.
Tattoo :: Tattoo (v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out..
Mattery :: Mattery (a.) Full of substance or matter; important.
Frank :: Frank (a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage..
Aposteme :: Aposteme (n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.
Fluxion :: Fluxion (n.) The matter that flows.
Slip :: Slip (n.) Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
Gist :: Gist (n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question..
Concretion :: Concretion (n.) The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification..
Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..
Committee :: Committee (n.) One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together..
Subjectness :: Subject-matter (n.) The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
Conference :: Conference (n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters..
Calcination :: Calcination (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime..
Saccharine :: Saccharine (a.) Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter..
Nucleoplasm :: Nucleoplasm (n.) The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.
Lump :: Lump (n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore..
Knot :: Knot (n.) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing..
Suigothus :: Suint (n.) A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas..
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