Definition of matte

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Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..

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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..
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..
Upburst :: Upburst (n.) The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter..
Bear :: Bear (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear..
Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?.
Taenia :: Taenia (n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter..
Vortex :: Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices..
Cough :: Cough (v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner..
Material :: Material (v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
Organizable :: Organizable (a.) Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter..
Extraneous :: Extraneous (a.) Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter..
Stria :: Stria (n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain..
Matterless :: Matterless (a.) Unimportant; immaterial.
Reunion :: Reunion (n.) A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects..
Dispossession :: Dispossession (n.) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster..
Witts :: Witts (n.) Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.
Must :: Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane..
Hylarchical :: Hylarchical (a.) Presiding over matter.
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..
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