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

The state of being a matron.

To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson.

Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.

Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.

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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. [Obs.]

See Matte. Knight.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse. [Prov. Eng.]

A subterranean repository for wheat.

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.…

Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. Matted glass, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment. He is the matter of virtue. B. Jonson.

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.

The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

e an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax. 'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. Shak.

A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.

A kind of coarse punch with a rasplike face, used for making a rough surface on etching ground, or on the naked copper, the effect after biting being very similar to stippled lines.