foul matter
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Filth, filth, n. foul matter: anything that defiles, physically or morally.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Like abandoned roads that soon become filled with weeds and rubbish, unused nostrils become filled with impurities and foul matter.
From The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath by William Walker Atkinson
Care should be taken to make them watertight, otherwise the foul matter may percolate through the ground, and is likely to contaminate the water supply.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
At first a course foul matter will work over; to which purpose it must be kept always full with fresh Liquor of the same, as it worketh over.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
Even the public esplanade has to be shunned, the silt from the sewer which is being used for reclaiming being a mass of foul matter.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss
