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Definition of Mattrass
1. matrass [n -ES] - See also: matrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mattrass
Literary usage of Mattrass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"stitching, the stitches of a quilt or mattrass. ... also the hasting or preparatory
stitching of a garment, stitching of a quilt or mattrass. ..."
2. Elements of Physics; Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical: Comoprised by Neil Arnott (1856)
"It thus appears that by choosing a certain thickness of mattrass, and if unusual
positions are required by having different thicknesses in different parts, ..."
3. Literature in the Century by Alban Bertram De Mille (1903)
"THE mattrass-GRAVE.— GUTZ- KOW.—WAGNER.—NEW AIMS AND HOPES.—SUDERMANN AND HAUPTMANN.
THE nineteenth century has been marked for the German people by a ..."
4. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench: Being Selections from Her by Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench (1862)
"... reposing on a white satin mattrass and pillows, in her last quiet bed; for
though all was conducted with the privacy she desired, it was mingled with ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1831)
"of a bottle, of the same capacity with the mattrass, and immersed up to the ...
Distil with a gentle heat, till the -fluid in the mattrass is reduced to the ..."
6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1841)
"... one upon another, until they make the thickness required; they are then sewn
in a covering, and form a soft and elastic mattrass or cushion. ..."
7. A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and by Robert Christison (1836)
"Place it in a small mattrass with a short neck, to which a tube with a ball ...
and let the part of the tube between the mattrass and ball be a third of an ..."
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