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One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize. [Obs.] Shak.

The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

An hexameter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One fond of good living; an epicure. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to gastromony.

A gastromomer.

The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.

Obstinacy. [R.] Gayton.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.

The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyosternum.

The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. [R.] Cotgrave.

To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory. [R.] Bacon.

borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother. Fuller.

The state of a matron.

Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

The state of being a matron.