Materialize (v. t.) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
Materialize (v. t.) To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
Materialize (v. t.) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
Materialize (v. i.) To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
Materially (adv.) In the state of matter.
Materially (adv.) In its essence; substantially.
Materially (adv.) In an important manner or degree; essentaily; as, it materially concern us to know the real motives of our actions.
Materialness (n.) The state of being material.
Materia medica () Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.
Materia medica () That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.
Materiarian (n.) See Materialist.
Materiate (a.) Alt. of Materiated
Materiated (a.) Consisting of matter.
Materiation (n.) Act of forming matter.
Materiel (n.) That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.
Materious (a.) See Material.
Maternal (a.) Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.
Maternally (adv.) In a motherly manner.
Maternity (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
Matfelon (n.) The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).
Math (n.) A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.
Mathematic (a.) See Mathematical.
Mathematical (a.) Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness.
Mathematician (n.) One versed in mathematics.
Mathematics (n.) That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.
Mather (n.) See Madder.
Mathes (n.) The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.
Mathesis (n.) Learning; especially, mathematics.
Mathurin (n.) See Trinitarian.
Matico (n.) A Peruvian plant (Piper, / Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.
Matie (n.) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.
M/tin (n.) A French mastiff.
Matin (n.) Morning.
Matin (n.) Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.
Matin (n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.
Matin (a.) Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.
Matinal (a.) Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.
Matinee (n.) A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirEe.
Matrass (n.) A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.
Matress (n.) See Matress.
Matriarch (n.) The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.
Matriarchal (a.) Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch.
Matriarchate (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.
Matrice (n.) See Matrix.
Matricidal (a.) Of or pertaining to matricide.
Matricide (n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
Matricide (n.) One who murders one's own mother.
Matriculated (imp. & p. p.) of Matriculate
Matriculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Matriculate
Matriculate (v. t.) To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.
Matriculate (v. i.) To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.
Matriculate (a.) Matriculated.
Matriculate (n.) One who is matriculated.
Matriculation (n.) The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.
Matrimoine (n.) Matrimony.
Matrimonial (a.) Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties.
Matrimonially (adv.) In a matrimonial manner.
Matrimonious (a.) Matrimonial.
Matrimony (n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
Matrimony (n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
Matrices (pl. ) of Matrix
Matrix (n.) The womb.
Matrix (n.) Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything
Matrix (n.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type.
Matrix (n.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.
Matrix (n.) The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.
Matrix (n.) The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.
Matrix (n.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.
Matron (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
Matron (n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.
Matronage (n.) The state of a matron.
Matronage (n.) The collective body of matrons.
Matronal (a.) Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
Matronhood (n.) The state of being a matron.
Matronized (imp. & p. p.) of Matronize
Matronizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Matronize
Matronize (v. t.) To make a matron of; to make matronlike.
Matronize (v. t.) To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
Matronlike (a.) Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
Matronly (a.) Advanced in years; elderly.
Matronly (a.) Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
Matronymic (n.) See Metronymic.
Matross (n.) Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.
Matt (n.) See Matte.
Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Mattamore (n.) A subterranean repository for wheat.
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.
Matte (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.
Matted (a.) Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding.
Matted (a.) Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.
Matted (a.) Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair.
Matter (n.) That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment.
Matter (n.) That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.
Matter (n.) That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme.
Matter (n.) That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business.
Matter (n.) Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter ? no matter, and the like.
Matter (n.) Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.
Matter (n.) Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite.
Matter (n.) Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.
Matter (n.) That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form.