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A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.

very of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Purulent matter. [Obs.] Barrough.

bstitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. A fair balance of the advantages on either side. Atterbury.

Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.

ire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. -- Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.]…

tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

y. Brilliant but barren reveries. Prescott. Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter. Swift.

non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

the same word as by; joined with verbs, it serves: (a) To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir. (b) To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).…

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]

To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.