Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 25
Matter (n.) (Print.) Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing.
Dead matter (Print.), Type which has been used, or which is not to be used, in printing, and is ready for distribution.
Live matter (Print.), Type set up, but not yet printed from.
Matter in bar, Matter of fact. See under Bar, and Fact.
Matter of record, Anything recorded.
Upon the matter, or Upon the whole matter, Considering the whole; taking all things into view; all things considered.
Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot. -- Clarendon.
Mattered (imp. & p. p.) of Matter.
Mattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Matter.
Matter (v. i.) To be of importance; to import; to signify.
It matters not how they were called. -- Locke.
Matter (v. i.) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. [R.]
"Each slight sore mattereth." -- Sir P. Sidney.
Matter (v. t.) To regard as important; to take account of; to care for. [Obs.]
He did not matter cold nor hunger. -- H. Brooke.
Matter (n.) A vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" [syn: matter, affair, thing].
Matter (n.) Some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter].
Matter (n.) That which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it".
Matter (n.) A problem; "is anything the matter?"
Matter (n.) (Used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games".
Matter (n.) Written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane".
Matter (v.) Have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much" [syn: count, matter, weigh].
MATTER, () Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts.
MATTER, IMPERTINENT, Equity pleading. That which is altogether irrelevant to the case, that does not appertain or belong to it; id est, qui ad rem non pertinet. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4163. See Impertinent.
MATTER, SCANDALOUS, Equity pleading. A false and malicious statement of facts, not relevant to the cause. But nothing which is positively relevant, however harsh or gross the charge may be, can be considered scandalous. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4163.
MATTER, SCANDALOUS, Equity pleading. A bill cannot by the general practice, be referred for impertinence after the defendant has answered, or submitted to answer, but it may be referred for scandal at any time, and even upon the application of a stranger to the suit, for he has the right to prevent the records of the court from being made the vehicle of spreading slanders against himself. Id. n. 41f 64.
Matterless (a.) Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. -- Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)
Matterless (a.) Unimportant; immaterial. [Obs.]
Matter-of-fact (a.) Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
Matter-of-fact (a.) Not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay" [syn: matter-of-fact, prosaic].
Matter-of-fact (a.) Concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip" [syn: matter-of-fact, pragmatic, pragmatical].
Mattery (a.) Generating or containing pus; purulent.
Mattery (a.) Full of substance or matter; important. -- B. Jonson.
Matting (n.) The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
Matting (n.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.
Matting (n.) Materials for mats.
Matting (n.) An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.
Matting (n.) A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
Matting (n.) A covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp).
Matting (n.) Mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture [syn: mat, matting].
Mattock (n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. -- Shak.
Mattock (n.) A kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle.
Mattock, () Heb. ma'eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a vineyard (Isa. 7:25); a weeding-hoe.
Mattock, () Heb. mahareshah (1 Sam. 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or coulter.
Mattock, () Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chr. 34:6). Authorized Version, "with their mattocks," marg. "mauls." The Revised Version renders "in their ruins," marg. "with their axes." The Hebrew text is probably corrupt.
Mattowacca (n.) [Indian name.] (Zool.) An American clupeoid fish ({Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
Mattress (n.) 褥墊，床墊 [C] A large pad stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable soft material, and quilted or otherwise fastened, used as or in a bed, to support the human body while lying down. [Written also matress.]
Mattress (n.) (Hydraulic Engin.) 土木 (護岸工程所用的) 柴排，沈排 A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
Innerspring mattress A variety of mattress[1] having springs inside to provide a flexible support; it is considered more comfortable than a stuffed mattress.
Mattress (n.) A large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed.
Mattress (n.) The part of a bed, made of a strong cloth cover filled with firm material, that makes the bed comfortable to lie on.
Maturant (n.) (Med.) A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.
Maturated (imp. & p. p.) of Maturate.
Maturating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maturate.
Maturate (a.) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
A tree may be maturated artificially. -- Fuller.
Maturate (a.) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
Maturate (v. i.) To ripen; to become mature; specifically, to suppurate.
Maturate (v.) Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate, grow].
Maturate (v.) Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day -- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate].
Maturate (v.) Ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate].
Maturation (n.) The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.
Maturation (n.) Coming to full development; becoming mature [syn: maturation, ripening, maturement].
Maturation (n.) (Biology) The process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment].
Maturation (n.) (Medicine) The formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: festering, suppuration, maturation].
Maturative (a.) Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
Maturative (n.) (Med.) A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.
Mature (a.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
Now is love mature in ear. -- Tennison.
How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age? -- Pope.
Mature (a.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out.-- Shak.
Mature (a.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
Mature (a.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
Syn: Ripe; perfect; completed; prepared; digested; ready.
Usage: Mature, Ripe. Both words describe fullness of growth. Mature brings to view the progressiveness of the process; ripe indicates the result. We speak of a thing as mature when thinking of the successive stayes through which it has passed; as ripe, when our attention is directed merely to its state. A mature judgment; mature consideration; ripe fruit; a ripe scholar.
Compare: Developed
Developed (a.) Being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; as, the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook; the state's well-developed industries. Oppositre of undeveloped. [Narrower terms: formulated; mature]
Developed (a.) Made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads; -- of real estate. new houses are springing up on the developed tract of land near the river.
Syn: improved.
Mature (a.) Characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age" [ant: immature].
Mature (a.) Fully considered and perfected; "mature plans" [syn: mature, matured].
Mature (a.) Having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell" [ant: immature].
Mature (a.) Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines" [syn: ripe, mature] [ant: green, immature, unripe, unripened].
Mature (a.) (Of birds) Having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination [syn: fledged, mature] [ant: immature, unfledged].
Mature (v.) Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate, grow].
Mature (v.) Develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I need to mature my thoughts".
Mature (v.) Become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005".
Mature (v.) Cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [syn: ripen, mature].
Mature (v.) Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day -- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate].
Mature (v.) Cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [syn: suppurate, mature].
Matured (imp. & p. p.) of Mature.
Maturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mature.
Mature (v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. -- Bacon.
Mature (v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
Mature (v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.
Maturely (adv.) In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely.
Maturely (adv.) With caution; deliberately. -- Dryden.
Maturely (adv.) Early; soon. [A
Latinism, little used] -- Bentley.
Maturely (adv.) In a mature manner; "she
acts very maturely for her age" [ant: immaturely,
jejunely].
Matureness (n.) The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
Matureness (n.) State of being mature; full development [syn: maturity, matureness] [ant: immatureness, immaturity].
Maturer (n.) One who brings to maturity.
Maturescent (a.) Approaching maturity.
Maturing (a.) Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.
Maturity (n.) The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.
Maturity (n.) Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.
Maturity (n.) The period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed [syn: adulthood, maturity].
Maturity (n.) State of being mature; full development [syn: maturity, matureness] [ant: immatureness, immaturity].
Maturity (n.) The date on which an obligation must be repaid [syn: maturity, maturity date, due date].
MATURITY. () The time when a bill or note becomes due. In order to bind the endorsers such note or bill must be protested, when not paid, on the last day of grace. See Days of grace.
Matutinal (a.) 早晨的；黎明的 Of or pertaining to the morning; early.
Matutinal (a.) Pertaining to or occurring in the morning; "took his matutinal walk".
Matutinary (a.) Matutinal. [R.]
Matutine (a.) Matutinal. [R.]
Matweed (n.) (Bot.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed ({Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.
Maty (n.) A native house servant in India. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India). matzo
Matzoth (n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.
Maucaco (n.) (Zool.) A lemur; -- applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.
Maud (n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.
Maud, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 1136
Housing Units (2000): 523
Land area (2000): 0.967389 sq. miles (2.505525 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.967389 sq. miles (2.505525 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46900
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.131809 N, 96.777527 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74854
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Maud, OK
Maud
Maud, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 1028
Housing Units (2000): 473
Land area (2000): 1.487008 sq. miles (3.851332 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.487008 sq. miles (3.851332 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47088
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.332185 N, 94.343244 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75567
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Maud, TX
Maud
Maudle (v. t.) To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render maudlin. [Obs.]
Maudlin (a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." -- Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." -- Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." -- Pope. "Maudlin crowd." -- Southey.
Maudlin (a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. -- Byron. Maudlin
Maudlin (a.) Tearfully or excessively sentimental. Maudlin is an alteration of (Mary) Magdalene, who in paintings was often represented with eyes red and swollen from weeping.
Maudlin (n.) Alt. of Maudeline.
Maudeline (n.) (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
Maudlin (a.) Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy].
Maudlinism (n.) A maudlin state. -- Dickens.
Maudlinwort (n.) (Bot.) The oxeye daisy. Mauger
Mauger (prep.) Alt. of Maugre.
Maugre (prep.) In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. [Archaic]
A man must needs love maugre his heed. -- Chaucer.
This mauger all the world will I keep safe. -- Shak.
Maugre (v. t.) To defy. [Obs.] -- J. Webster.
Malkin (n.) [Written also maukin.] Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. -- Chaucer.
Malkin (n.) A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.
Malkin (n.) A scarecrow. [Prov. Eng.]
Malkin (n.) (Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
Maukin (n.) See Malkin.
Maukin (n.) (Zool.) A hare. [Scot.]
Maul (n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also mall.]
Mauled (imp. & p. p.) of Maul.
Mauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maul.
Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul. -- Pope.
Maul (v. t.) To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented. -- South.
Maule (n.) (Bot.) The common mallow.
Mauling (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist. maulstick
Maul-stick (n.) A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working. [Written also mahl-stick and mahlstick.]
Maumet (n.) See Mawmet. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Maunch (v. t.) To munch. [Obs.]
Maunch (n.) See Manche.
Munch (v. t. & i.) [imp. & p. p. Munched; p. pr. & vb. n. Munching.] [Prob. akin to mumble: cf. also F. manger to eat (cf. Mange), and m[^a]cher to cher (cf. Masticate). See Mumble.]
To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls. [Formerly written also maunch and mounch.]
I could munch your good dry oats. -- Shak.
Maund (n.) A hand basket. [Obs.] -- Herrick.
Maund (n.) An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.
Maund (v. i.) Alt. of Maunder.
Maunder (v. i.) To beg. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl.
Maunder (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. -- Sir W. Scott.
Maunder (v. t.) To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.
Maunder (n.) A beggar. [Obs.]
Maund, Maunder (v. i.) To beg. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl.
Maund, Maunder (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. -- Sir W. Scott.
Maunderer (n.) One who maunders.
Maundril (n.) (Coal Mining) A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
Maundy Thursday () (Eccl.) The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday.
Maungy (a.) Mangy. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Mauresque (a. & n.) See Moresque.
Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish. -- n. The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish. [Written also mauresque.]
Maurist (n.) A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.
Mauritania (n.) 茅利塔尼亞；茅利塔尼亞伊斯蘭共和國 Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of western Africa.[7][8][9] It is the eleventh largest country in Africa and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara in the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mali in the east and southeast, and Senegal in the southwest.
The country derives its name from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, which existed from the 3rd century BC to the 7th century in the far north of modern-day Morocco and Algeria. Approximately 90% of Mauritania's land is within the Sahara; consequently, the population is concentrated in the south, where precipitation is slightly higher. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast, which is home to around one-third of the country's 4.3 million people. The government was overthrown on 6 August 2008, in a military coup d'état led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. On 16 April 2009, Aziz resigned from the military to run for president in the 19 July elections, which he won.[10]
About 20% of Mauritanians live on less than US$1.25 per day.[11] Mauritania suffers from several human rights issues,[12] including slavery, as at least 4% of the population (155,600 people) are enslaved against their will. Mauritania was the last country to legally abolish slavery; it only became punishable as a criminal act in 2007.
Mausolean (a.) Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.
Mausoleums (n. pl. ) of Mausoleum.
-lea (n. pl. ) of Mausoleum.
Mausoleum (n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Mauther (n.) A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]
Mauvaniline (n.) (Chem.) See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.
Mauve (n.) 淡紫色染料；淡紫色 A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
Mauve aniline (Chem.), A dyestuff produced artificially by the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first discovered of the so-called coal-tar, or aniline, dyes. It consists of the sulphate of mauve["i]ne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color. Called also aniline purple, violine, Perkin's mauve, etc.
Colorful (a.) Having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled].
Syn: colourful.
Colorful (a.) Striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque].
Colorful (a.) Having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey,
honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.].
Syn: colored, coloured, in color (predicate).
Mauve (a.) 淡紫色的 Of a pale to moderate greyish violet color.
Mauve (n.) A moderate purple.
Mauveine (n.) (Chem.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. [Written also mauvine.]
Mauveine (n.) (Chem.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. [Written also mauvine.]
Mauvine (a.) Mauve-colored.