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Consisting of matter. [Obs.] Bacon.

Act of forming matter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

See Material. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

In a motherly manner.

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath. [Obs.] The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.

See Mathematical.

Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness. -- Math`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in mathematics.

o pure or abstract, which considers magnitude or quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed or applied, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations.

See Madder.

The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.

Learning; especially, mathematics. [R.] Pope.

See Trinitarian.

A Peruvian plant (Piper, or Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

A fat herring with undeveloped roe. [Written also matty.] [Eng. & Scot.]

pl. Etym: [F. matines. See Etymol. above.]