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graphitic matter. matter-fangled, extirely.

 
above the slop. the matter       110 : 83

Mattery. v. W.Som.     To discharge pus.

insoluble matter       111 : 11
a matter of some question       111 : 17
extirely [sic] a matter of speculation       111 : 36
impracticable, as no matter what       111 : 42
no matter how       111 : 108

Mattery, adj. Nhb.     Wordy; loquacious.

volatile matter       112 : 4
clay and vegetable matter       112 : 12
matter, ash, and graphitic       112 : 43
matter. the covered       112 : 44
matter. a lower       112 : 44
matter in coal       112 : 44
matter content in graphite       112 : 44

Matty. adj. Sc. Yks. Nhp.     Matted, twisted, interwoven.

matter from       112 : 45
matter, determination of       112 : 80

Matter-fangled. adj. Cum.     In incipient dotage; muddle-headed, confused.

matter       112 : 44

sources

all but one (or two?) instance(s) of matter in Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines Bulletin,
three issues bound together; UC Berkeley copy, digitized September 24, 2010 —

same volume at hathitrust

mattery definitions ex Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary : M-Q (1903) : 53
google books / archive.org
 

6 November 2018

tags: dotage; graphite; matter; muddles