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[L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr.
&?; to squeeze, knead.] 1. Any crude mixture of
mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.
Ure.

2. (Med.) (a) 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.
(b) A salve or confection of thick
consistency. Dunglison.

3. (Geol.) (a) The
molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava
flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. (b)
The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

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

||Mag"na Char"ta (?). [L., great charter.]
1. The great Charter, so called, obtained by the
English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also
given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth
year of Henry III.

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