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- English Word Mattowacca Definition An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
- English Word Mattress Definition A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
- English Word Mattress Definition A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
- English Word Maturant Definition A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.
- English Word Maturate Definition To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
- English Word Maturate Definition To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
- English Word Maturate Definition To ripen; to become mature; specif/cally, to suppurate.
- English Word Maturated Definition of Maturate
- English Word Maturating Definition of Maturate
- English Word Maturation Definition The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.
- English Word Maturative Definition Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
- English Word Maturative Definition A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.
- English Word Mature Definition Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
- English Word Mature Definition Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
- English Word Mature Definition Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
- English Word Mature Definition Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
- English Word Mature Definition To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
- English Word Mature Definition To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
- English Word Mature Definition Hence, to become due, as a note.
- English Word Matured Definition of Mature
- English Word Maturely Definition In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely.
- English Word Maturely Definition With caution; deliberately.
- English Word Maturely Definition Early; soon.
- English Word Matureness Definition The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
- English Word Maturer Definition One who brings to maturity.
- English Word Maturescent Definition Approaching maturity.
- English Word Maturing Definition of Mature
- English Word Maturing Definition Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.
- English Word Maturity Definition The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.
- English Word Maturity Definition Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.