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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste. Ure.

2. A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.

3. A salve or confection of thick consistency. Dunglison.

4. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

5. The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

6. The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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