Definitions for matrasses

matrasses mat·rass

Spelling: [ma-truh s]
IPA: /ˈmæ trəs/

Matrasses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 323 anagrams from letters in matrasses (aaemrssst).

Definitions for matrasses

noun

  1. a rounded, long-necked glass container, formerly used for distilling and dissolving substances.

Origin of matrasses

1595-1605; French matras, perhaps Arabic maṭarah leather bottle Greek metrētḗs a liquid measure

Examples for matrasses

Iodine, 17 parts; zinc (in powder), 20 parts; mix, and sublime in a matrass.

In chemical laboratories, this process is usually carried on in a matrass A, Pl.

matrass, mat′ras, n. a chemical vessel with a tapering neck, a cucurbit.

Pour fresh Vinegar on what is left in the matrass, and digest as before.

Order it so that your powder shall take up no more than about a third part of the matrass.

This solution I poured boiling hot into a matrass, at the bottom of which I laid some fine iron wire cut into small pieces.

Then fill up the crucible with sand, so that the belly of the matrass may be quite buried therein.

The process being terminated, the matrass will contain about 43 fl.

The most simple distilling vessel is a species of bottle or matrass, A, Pl.

This vehicle contained several invalids, two of whom were reclining on a matrass laid along the bottom.

Word Value for matrasses
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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