Matter (n.) 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.
Mattered (imp. & p. p.) of Matter
Mattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Matter
Matter (v. i.) To be of importance; to import; to signify.
Matter (v. i.) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
Matter (v. t.) To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.
Matterless (a.) Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.
Matterless (a.) Unimportant; immaterial.
Matter-of-fact (a.) Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
Mattery (a.) Generating or containing pus; purulent.
Mattery (a.) Full of substance or matter; important.
Matting (v. t. & i.) The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
Matting (v. t. & i.) 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 (v. t. & i.) Materials for mats.
Matting (v. t. & i.) An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.
Matting (n.) A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
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.
Mattowacca (n.) 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.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
Mattress (n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
Maturant (n.) 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.
Maturate (a.) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
Maturate (v. i.) To ripen; to become mature; specif/cally, to 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.
Maturative (a.) Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
Maturative (n.) A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.
Mature (superl.) 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.
Mature (superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
Mature (superl.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
Mature (superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
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.
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.
Maturely (adv.) Early; soon.
Matureness (n.) The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
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.
Matutinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the morning; early.
Matutinary (a.) Matutinal.
Matutine (a.) Matutinal.
Matweed (n.) 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.
Matzoth (n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.
Maucaco (n.) 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.
Maudle (v. t.) To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render maudlin.
Maudlin (a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
Maudlin (a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Maudlin (n.) Alt. of Maudeline
Maudeline (n.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
Muadlinism (n.) A maudlin state.
Maudlinwort (n.) The oxeye daisy.
Mauger (prep.) Alt. of Maugre
Maugre (prep.) In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.
Maugre (v. t.) To defy.
Maukin (n.) See Malkin.
Maukin (n.) A hare.
Maul (n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
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.
Maul (v. t.) To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
Maule (n.) The common mallow.
Mauling (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.
Maul-stick (n.) A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working.
Maumet (n.) See Mawmet.
Maunch (v. t.) To munch.
Maunch (n.) See Manche.
Maund (n.) A hand basket.
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.
Maunder (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
Maunder (v. t.) To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.
Maunder (n.) A beggar.
Maunderer (n.) One who maunders.
Maundril (n.) A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
Maundy Thursday () The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday.
Maungy (a.) Mangy.
Mauresque (a. & n.) See Moresque.
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.
Mausolean (a.) Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.
Mausoleums (pl. ) of Mausoleum
-lea (pl. ) of Mausoleum
Mausoleum (n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Mauther (n.) A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench.
Mauvaniline (n.) See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.
Mauve (n.) A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
Mauveine (n.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.
Mauvine (a.) Mauve-colored.