Definition of matter

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

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Filth :: Filth (n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
Form :: Form (n.) The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance..
Live :: Live (v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity..
Expiring :: Expiring (a.) Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
Inhabile :: Inhabile (a.) Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; as, inhabile matter..
Loam :: Loam (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due..
Anthokyan :: Anthokyan (n.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.
Count :: Count (v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Conscientiously :: Conscientiously (adv.) In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.
Excretory :: Excretory (a.) Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter..
Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter..
Ail :: Ail (v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him..
Vivification :: Vivification (n.) One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc..
Immaterial :: Immaterial (a.) Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.
Fur :: Fur (n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
Saccharimeter :: Saccharimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts..
Firm :: Firm (superl.) Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood..
There :: There (pron.) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech..
Stain :: Stain (v. t.) To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood..
Impenetrability :: Impenetrability (n.) That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.
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