单词 | matrass |
释义 | † matrassn.1 Obsolete. A bolt or quarrel for a crossbow (see also quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > crossbow bolt > [noun] bolta1000 quarrela1250 arbalestrec1300 vire1390 matrassc1450 viretonc1500 matrass1591 quarry1600 cross-arrow1619 1260 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 144/2/4) m. 2 Petrus traxit ad..Rogerum de quadam arbelaste & percussit eum cum vno materaz habenti clauem ferreum..in dorso.] c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 609/25 Sarissa, a materas. a1509 (?1468) Acct. Marriage Margaret of York in Archaeologia (1846) 31 333 One ether side ane archere; one wt a crosbowe bende, wt a materas. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 244/1 Mattresse for a crosbowe, martelas. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Matrass, the square head of an arrow called quarril. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021). matrassn.2 Now rare. A glass flask with a round or oval body and a long neck, used chiefly in chemical distillation. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > crossbow bolt > [noun] bolta1000 quarrela1250 arbalestrec1300 vire1390 matrassc1450 viretonc1500 matrass1591 quarry1600 cross-arrow1619 the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > glass > others urinalc1300 recipient1558 matrass1591 tritory1660 balloon1678 proof-glass1765 air-bell1782 transfer-jar1827 ignition tube1874 beaker1877 bell-jar1877 flask1878 steam-bomb1895 Nessler tube1906 oxygen bottle1932 1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Spagyrike Preparation Mineralles 25 While it is hot put it into a retort of glasse, and distill it..if it happen that all the matter be not dissolued ye shall take that powder that remained in the bottome of your matters and drye it. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. v. 123 Vessels which are called matrats, like unto round globes, having straite neckes. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Eeeev Some include it [sc. quicksilver] with Aqua fortis in a Matracy. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 166 Put a..quantity thereof in a matrass, lute it exactly [etc.]. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Table Matrace, a vessel used for chymical distillations. 1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words at Bell, in Fleta Minor ii The word Bell is also applyed to a glass..which the Chimists call a matrass glass. 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 73 Put all into a Matras, and pour upon them a Quart of Brandy. 1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory ii. i. 81 Instead of a Matrass, may be used a Florence Wine Flask. 1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 34 A Long-necked matras or bolt head. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 206 So the learn'd Alchemist exulting sees Rise in his bright matrass Diana's trees. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 448 The sulphuric acid in the matrass. 1849 R. V. Dixon Treat. Heat i. 155 The ball of a small mattrass. 1868 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 3) 45 A matrass containing twenty-two ounces of water. 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Matrass, applied to a urinal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1c1450n.21591 |
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