matter (1 peculiar to S.)
1.
sense,
substance (as opposed to nonsense or trifling)
Ado II. i. 346
“to speak all mirth and
no ,”
AYL. II. i. 68
“he's full of ,”
Lr. IV. iv. 179
“O! matter and
impertinency mix'”
2.
phrases:—“ in it,” some
importance attaching to it Wint. IV. iii. 880
[iv. 874], Oth. III. iv. 138;
“it's no for,” there is
no importance attaching to (the thing in question)
H5 V. i. 17
“'Tis no for his
swellings”
; esp. “it's no for
that”=that does not matter Gent. III. i. 337, Wiv. I. iv. 120, Cor. IV. v. 174; “no such ,” nothing of the
kind Ado I. i. 199 [192], Sonn. lxxxvii. 14; used
to give an emphatic negative to a previous statement
or implication Ado II. iii.
236 [225], V. iv. 82, Tw.N. III. i. 5, 2H4 Ind. 15, Troil. III. i. 99, Ham. II. ii. 279; “to the ,” to the point
Ham. III. ii. 344 [336], Cym. V. v. 170; “off the ,” irrelevantly
Wiv. III. v. 10.
