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4. That which one has to treat, or with which
one has to do; concern; affair; business.

To help the matter, the alchemists call in many
vanities out of astrology.

Some young female seems to have carried matters
so far, that she is ripe for asking advice.

5. Affair worthy of account; thing of
consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the
phrases what matter ? no matter, and the
like.

A prophet some, and some a poet, cry;

No matter which, so neither of them lie.

6. Inducing cause or occasion, especially of
anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.

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.

7. Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often
indefinite.


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