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Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.

al eel, and the electric cat. See Torpedo, and Gymnotus. -- Electric fluid, the supposed matter of electricity; lightning. -- Electrical image (Elec.), a collection of electrical points regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain other electrical points, and used in the solution of…

Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]

he letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.

To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

d workmen; to employ an envoy. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.

the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.

The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.

its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. High matter thou enjoin'st me. Milton. I am enjoined by oath to observe three things. Shak.

A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs.

The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.

The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.