Webster's Dictionary 1828

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MATCHLESS

MATCH'LESS, adjective Having no equal; as matchless impudence; a matchless queen; matchless love or charms.

731

MATCHLESSLY

MATCH'LESSLY, adverb In a manner or degree not to be equaled.

732

MATCHLESSNESS

MATCH'LESSNESS, noun The state or quality of being without an equal.

733

MATCHLOCK

MATCH'LOCK, noun Formerly, the lock of a musket which was fired by a match.

734

MATCHMAKER

MATCH'MAKER, noun One who makes matches for burning.1. One who contrives or effects a union by marriage.

735

MATE

MATE, noun1. A companion; an associate; one who customarily associates with another. Young persons nearly of an age, and frequently associating, are called mates or playmates.2....

736

MATELESS

MA'TELESS, adjective Having no mate or companion.Materia Medica, a general name for every substance used in medicine.1. An auxiliary branch of the science of medicine, which tre...

737

MATERIAL

MATE'RIAL, adjective [Latin materia, matter.]1. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; as material substance; material bodies.2. Important; momentous; more or less necessary; havi...

738

MATERIALISM

MATE'RIALISM, noun The doctrine of materialists; the opinion of those who maintain that the soul of man is not a spiritual substance distinct from matter, but that it is the res...

739

MATERIALIST

MATE'RIALIST, noun One who denies the existence of spiritual substances, and maintains that the soul of man is the result of a particular organization of matter in the body.

740

MATERIALITY

MATERIAL'ITY, noun Material existence; corporeity; not spirituality.1. Importance; as the materiality of facts.

741

MATERIALIZE

MATE'RIALIZE, verb transitive To reduce to a state of matter; also, to regard as matter.

742

MATERIALLY

MATE'RIALLY, adverb In the state of matter.1. Not formally; substantially.An ill intention may spoil an act materially good.2. In an important manner or degree; essentially. It ...

743

MATERIATE

MATE'RIATEMATE'RIATED,. [Latin materiatus.] Consisting of matter. [Little used.]

744

MATERIATED

MATE'RIATED,. [L. materiatus.] Consisting of matter. [Little used.]

745

MATERIATION

MATERIA'TION, noun The act of forming matter. [Not used.]

746

MATERNAL

MATERN'AL, adjective [Latin maternus, from mater, mother.] Motherly; pertaining to a mother; becoming a mother; as maternal love; maternal tenderness.

747

MATERNITY

MATERN'ITY, noun The character or relation of a mother.

748

MATFELON

MAT'FELON, noun A plant of the genus Centaurea, knap-weed.

749

MATH

MATH, noun A mowing; as in aftermath.

750

MATHEMATIC

MATHEMAT'ICMATHEMAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin mathematicus.] Pertaining to mathematics; as mathematical knowledge; mathematical instruments.1. According to the principles of mathem...

751

MATHEMATICAL

MATHEMAT'ICAL, a. [L. mathematicus.] Pertaining to mathematics; as mathematical knowledge; mathematical instruments.1. According to the principles of mathematics; as mathematica...

752

MATHEMATICALLY

MATHEMAT'ICALLY, adverb According to the laws or principles of mathematical science.1. With mathematical certainty; demonstrably.

753

MATHEMATICIAN

MATHEMATI'CIAN, noun One versed in mathematics.

754

MATHEMATICS

MATHEMAT'ICS, noun [Latin mathematica, from Gr. to learn.] The science of quantity; the science which treats of magnitude and number, or of whatever can be measured or numbered....

755

MATHEMEG

MATH'EMEG, noun A fish of the cod kind, inhabiting Hudson's bay.

756

MATHES

MATH'ES, noun An herb.