Definition of matter

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Matter (v. i.) To be of importance; to import; to signify.

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Costiveness :: Costiveness (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
Stain :: Stain (n.) A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth..
Jejune :: Jejune (a.) Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
Infection :: Infection (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused..
Dualism :: Dualism (n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit..
Recusant :: Recusant (n.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope..
Senate :: Senate (n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students..
Inquest :: Inquest (n.) A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand..
Mordant :: Mordant (n.) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
Rationalize :: Rationalize (v. i.) To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory, belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the principles of rationalism..
Phycochrome :: Phycochrome (n.) A bluish green coloring matter of certain algae.
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..
Air Bed :: Air bed () A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed..
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..
Smatterer :: Smatterer (n.) One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist..
Persis :: Persis (n.) A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.
Ecphractic :: Ecphractic (a.) Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent..
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment..
Coction :: Coction (n.) The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
Inglobate :: Inglobate (a.) In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.
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