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matrice|ˈmeɪtrɪs, ˈmætrɪs|
Also 4–5 matris, 5 matryce, 6 mattrice.
[ad. L. mātrīc-em matrix n. Cf. F. matrice (also in popular form OF. marris: see maris).]
†1. The uterus, womb (of mammals); occas. the ovary (of other animals); = matrix n. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 175 Þe matris of wymmen. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. iv. x. in Ashm. (1652) 146 That after she hath conceyved of the Man, The Matryce of her be shyt. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 24 There wyth is hyr matrice or mother chafed. 1601Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618) III. 821 Some are engendered..of egs, as Serpents: and also by an other manner, which is perfected in the matrice by egs, as the viper. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 116 It..warms the matrice, and causeth the courses. 1774Walsh in Phil. Trans. LXIV. 468 In the right matrice he met with four such fetuses and nine such eggs.
†b. transf. and fig.
1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 62 Looke into the bowels & matrice of the earth, ye shall haue gold, siluer, brasse, to exceed all other mettals. 1624Fisher in F. White Repl. Fisher 590 Bringing them backe againe to the Roote and Matrice of the Catholicke Church. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. xii. 76 This persuasion, of the Egyptian Tongue..being the old Matrice of the Greek, is but a dream of Kirchers. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 333 For the most part this is an hospitable Soil, cherishing in its Matrice whatever is kindly sowed.
2. Die-sinking and Type-founding. = matrix n. 4. Now rare; the pl. coincides graphically with that of matrix n.
1587in Plomer Abstr. Wills Eng. Printers (1903) 27 My printinge wholy furnished with presses letters caracters of cast mettell, and the mattrices. 1587–8Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 265 James Achesoun..sinkis and makis irnes, instrumentis and matriceis, alsweill for prenting of silver as of lattoun. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., Matrices of Letters or Characters, are those moulds..in which the Letters..which Printers use are formed. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., When types are to be cast, the Matrice is fastened to the end of a mould. Ibid., Matrices used in coining, are pieces of steel in form of dyes. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic Gloss., Matrice, the concave form of a letter in which the types are cast. 1868E. Seyd Bullion (1880) 278 A well made Matrice will remain in use for about 15 years.
Comb.1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xv. ⁋11 Close by the..side of this Notch is a small square Wyer-staple driven, which we may call the Matrice-Check; for its Office is only to keep the Shanck of the Matrice from flying out of this Notch. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 113/2 The Mattrice or Mould-Maker [etc.] all called Letter Founders.
†3. (See quots.) Obs.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Matrice, or Matrix, in dying, is applied to the five simple colours... These are, the black, white, blue, red, and fallow. 1731Bailey vol. II, Matrice, [with Dyers] is apply'd to the first simple colours.
4. = matrix n. 3. rare.
1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall 131 Man digs into darkness,..He breaks up the veins from the matrice. |