matter

1) Often a purulent discharge, pus, but here used more vaguely of a bodily fluid such as mucus.

1676 upp with his cudgel, knocked him downe and soe brewsed his heade that ... he bled matter and blood at his nose, Rotherham.

places Rotherham
dates 1676

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