Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crossbowbolt. Compare vireton, quarrel, bolt.

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Examples

  • With very minute transformable portions called matras, of the five elements, all this perceptible world was composed in fit order; and in whatever occupation the Supreme Lord first employed any vital soul, to that occupation the same soul attaches itself spontaneously when it receives a new body again and again.

    The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 Various

  • These strokes are called matras, or dependant forms of the vowel.

    Lightly Toasted 2010

  • The room was clean, but had no other furniture than a matras, a table with a crucifix and book, a stool which she gave me to sit on, and a picture over the chimney of Saint Veronica displaying her handkerchief, with the miraculous figure of Christ's bleeding face on it, which she explained to me with great seriousness.

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1994 Edition) 1909

  • The room was clean, but had no other furniture than a matras, a table with a crucifix and book, a stool which she gave me to sit on, and a picture over the chimney of Saint Veronica displaying her handkerchief, with the miraculous figure of Christ’s bleeding face on it, which she explained to me with great seriousness.

    Paras. 51-100 1909

  • The room was clean, but had no other furniture than a matras, a table with a crucifix and book, a stool which she gave me to sit on, and a picture over the chimney of Saint Veronica displaying her handkerchief, with the miraculous figure of Christ's bleeding face on it, which she explained to me with great seriousness.

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1771

  • The room was clean, but had no other furniture than a matras, a table with a crucifix and book, a stool which she gave me to sit on, and a picture over the chimney of Saint Veronica displaying her handkerchief, with the miraculous figure of Christ's bleeding face on it, which she explained to me with great seriousness.

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1748

  • The room was clean, but had no other furniture than a matras, a table with a crucifix and book, a stool which she gave me to sit on, and a picture over the chimney of Saint Veronica displaying her handkerchief, with the miraculous figure of Christ's bleeding face on it, [46] which she explained to me with great seriousness.

    Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1748

  • v1. 24: fix many issues, corrected below base anchors etc. many fixes. v1. 21: corrected many glyph combinations. font works in KDE now as exected matras are properly arranged on the glyphs v1. 1:

    GNOME-Look.org Content 2010

  • v1. 24: fix many issues, corrected below base anchors etc. many fixes. v1. 21: corrected many glyph combinations. font works in KDE now as exected matras are properly arranged on the glyphs v1. 1:

    Xfce-Look.org Content 2010

  • v1. 24: fix many issues, corrected below base anchors etc. many fixes. v1. 21: corrected many glyph combinations. font works in KDE now as exected matras are properly arranged on the glyphs v1. 1:

    Xfce-Look.org Content 2010

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  • "A crossbowbolt. Compare vireton, quarrel, bolt."

    --Century Dictionary

    January 4, 2011