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- English Word Matrimony Definition The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
- English Word Matrimony Definition A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
- English Word Matrix Definition The womb.
- English Word Matrix Definition Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything
- English Word Matrix Definition The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type.
- English Word Matrix Definition The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.
- English Word Matrix Definition The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.
- English Word Matrix Definition The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.
- English Word Matrix Definition A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.
- English Word Matron Definition A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
- English Word Matron Definition A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.
- English Word Matronage Definition The state of a matron.
- English Word Matronage Definition The collective body of matrons.
- English Word Matronal Definition Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
- English Word Matronhood Definition The state of being a matron.
- English Word Matronize Definition To make a matron of; to make matronlike.
- English Word Matronize Definition To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
- English Word Matronized Definition of Matronize
- English Word Matronizing Definition of Matronize
- English Word Matronlike Definition Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- English Word Matronly Definition Advanced in years; elderly.
- English Word Matronly Definition Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
- English Word Matronymic Definition See Metronymic.
- English Word Matross Definition Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.
- English Word Matt Definition See Matte.
- English Word Mattages Definition A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
- English Word Mattamore Definition A subterranean repository for wheat.
- English Word Matte Definition A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.
- English Word Matte Definition A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.
- English Word Matted Definition Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding.