Noun

(label) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder . It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}

* 1984 , Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard, The Oxford companion to children's literature , page 275:

It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from (and murder of) the giant to be scarcely justified without her.

* 2003 , Paul Ruditis, Star Trek Voyager: Companion (ISBN 0743417518), page 131:

Captain Sulu, who served under the legendary James T. Kirk for many years, disobeys Starfleet orders in order to try and help Kirk and another old shipmate, Dr. McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.

* 2011 , Carlene Brennen, Hemingway's Cats (ISBN 1561644897), page 161:

Dr. Herrera also knew Hemingway had held Batista's army personally responsible for the brutal murders of his dogs, Blackie (Black Dog) and Machakos.

(label) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, author=Ed Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , passage=Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.

Something terrible to endure.

(label) A group of crows;

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* {{quote-book, 2001, (Daniel Handler), The Vile Village, isbn=0064408655, page=76

, passage=Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.}}

Noun

Substance, material.

# (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.

# (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).

# A kind of substance.

# Written material (especially in books or magazines).

# (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.

A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

if the matter should be tried by duel

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name / Shall be the copious matter of my song.

* Bible, (w) xviii. 22

Every great matter' they shall bring unto thee, but every small ' matter they shall judge.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

An approximate amount or extent.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.

* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

Away he goes,a matter of seven miles.

* (William Congreve) (1670-1729)

I have thoughts to tarry a small matter .

(obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

He is the matter of virtue.

(obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife.

(obsolete) Pus.