See Also: subject-matter(dictionary)
SUBJECT-MATTER(law)
subject matter(dictionary)
subject(2)(dictionary)
subject(1)(dictionary)
Subject(money)
Subject to a (NY) can(finance)
Subject(finance)
subject(dictionary)
Subject to a (NY) can(money)

poultry (iou) and subject-matter (iou)


poultry (iou)



poultry noun. ME.
[Old French pouletrie formed as POULTER: see -RY.]
pl. (usu. collect., treated as sing. or pl.) Domestic fowl; birds commonly reared for meat, eggs, or feathers in a yard, barn, or Other enclosure, as chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, or guinea-fowl (usu. excluding game-birds, as pigeons, pheasants, etc.). Also, such birds as a source of Food. ME.
Daily Telegraph More than two million poultry have now been lost in the..fowl pest epidemic. Which? To eat more white meat (especially poultry) and fish in place of red meat.
A place where fowl are reared or sold for Food. ME-L16.
The office or position of a poulter in a noble household. Cf. POULTER 2. LME-E17.
poultryless adjective L19.

subject-matter (iou)



subject-matter noun. Also subject matter. M16.
[from SUBJECT adjective + MATTER noun, var. of earlier matter subject s.v. MATTER noun. Later interpreted as from MATTER noun.]
a. The matter out of which a thing is formed, raw material used in an Art, process, etc. M16.
b. The ground, basis, or source of something. Only in 17.
The subject or theme of a book, speech, etc., a topic. L16.
The substance of a book, speech, etc., as opp. to form or style. M17.
J. Barzun Dewey's effect on schooling was to dethrone subject-matter and replace it by techniques
Matter treated in Writing, discussion, a lawsuit, etc.; that dealt with by a science or branch of study; material expressed in a book, artwork, etc. M17.
A. H. Sayce Articulate speech itself, the subject-matter of philology. C. Harman Occasionally, she turned to autobiographical subject-matter for her stories. Field The archetypal subject-matter of impressionist painting is landscape.