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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



1,110 words match “MATTER”

EXAMINATION n.
nation, or Re-direct examination, that made by a party calling a witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross- examination.
EXCREMENT n.
Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
EXCRETA n.
Matters to be excreted.
EXCRETORY a.
Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
EXEMPTITIOUS a.
Separable. [Obs.] "Exemptitious from matter." Dr. H. More.
EXERCISE n.
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude. Milton. Exercise bone (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.
EXERGUE n.
or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.
EXHALATION n.
fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.
EXPECTORATE v. 2 definitions
To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
EXPIRATION n. 2 definitions
Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. Bacon.
EXPIRING a.
Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
EXPOUND v.
; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle. Expound this matter more fully to me. Bunyan.
EXTRACTIVE a.
Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan.
EXTRANEOUS a.
beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. Landor. -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.
EXTRAORDINARY n.
d, there is nothing to prevent success. Their extraordinary did consist especially in the matter of prayers and devotions. Jer. Taylor.
EXUDE v.
To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance. Dr. T. Dwight.
FACE v.
r impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with oaths to face the matter out." Shak
FALL v.
mans fell on this model by chance. Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. H. Spencer.
FALLACY n.
An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
FASCIOLA n.
A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.
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