mat-trass

mat·trass

[ma-truhs]
noun Chemistry.
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matrass or mattrass (ˈmætrəs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
obsolete chem a long-necked glass flask, used for distilling, dissolving substances, etc
 
[C17: from French, perhaps related to Latin mētiri to measure]
 
mattrass or mattrass
 
n
 
[C17: from French, perhaps related to Latin mētiri to measure]

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
mattrass (ˈmætrəs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a variant spelling of matrass

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