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To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.] Dunglison.

or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.

A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.

The hearing a matter judicially.

Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. [R.]

Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macau…

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.

il intentions; to plot mischief. [Archaic or Colloq.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter, Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. Greene. He had been colloguing with my wife. Thackeray.

y, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

e who has arrived, and is present. All comers, all who come, or offer, to take part in a matter, especially in a contest or controversy. "To prove it against all comers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Matter; affair.

by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.

e interstate commerce commission. A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. Prescott.