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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “MATRON”

MATRON n. 2 definitions
as 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.
MATRONAGE n. 2 definitions
The state of a matron.
MATRONAL a.
Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
MATRONHOOD n.
The state of being a matron.
MATRONIZE v. 2 definitions
To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson.
MATRONLIKE a.
Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
MATRONLY a. 2 definitions
Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
MATRONYMIC n.
See Metronymic.
AUTUMNAL a.
Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…
CHAPERON n. 2 definitions
A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
DAMEWORT n.
A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon.
FEEL v.
To have the sensibilities moved or affected. [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. Burke. And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. Pope.
HOOT v.
To cry out or shout in contempt. Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more. Dryden.
MOTHER n.
An old woman or matron. [Familiar]
PURSUE v.
k; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law. The fame of ancient matrons you pursue. Dryden.
SCREAMING a.
Having the nature of a scream; like a scream; shrill; sharp. The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry. Dryden.