MATRASS

A chemical ve el employed in sublima« tions, and in digesting solutions in a sand heat. It is superseded in the modern laboratory by a flask. MATRICULA. iX.aX.maXer, mother.) A register kept of the admi ion of persons into any body of society, of which a list is made. In the Romish church there was a matricula clericorum, a list or catalogue of the officiating clergy; and matricula pauperum, a list of poor persons to be relieved. Hence, when a student is entered in the register of the universities, he is said to be matriculated. [s. 735]