Word Meanings - MATRONLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.

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• MATRONAL
  Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• MATRON
  1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• MATRONIZE
  1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• MATRONLY
  1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
• MATRONYMIC
  See METRONYMIC
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• GRAVELLINESS
  State of being gravelly.
• GRAVERY
  The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.
• GRAVESTONE
  A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
• GRAVELLY
  Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
• GRAVEOLENT
  Having a rank smell. Boyle.
• GRAVENSTEIN
  A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• INGRAVE
  To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
• UNGRAVE
  To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller.
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• MARGRAVE
  march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. gagrëfts decree: cf. D. markgraaf, F. margrave. 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title