2. A kind of game at cards played by several persons. Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray.
Syn.
— Marriage; wedlock. See Marriage.
MATRIX Ma"trix, n.; pl. Matrices. Etym: [L., fr. mater mother. See Mother, and cf. Matrice.]
1. (Anat.)
Defn: The womb.
All that openeth the matrix is mine. Ex. xxxiv. 19.
2. Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything; as: (a) (Mech.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type. (b) (Min.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue. (c) pl. (Dyeing)
Defn: The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.
3. (Biol.)
Defn: The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.
4. (Math.)