Mattoon
a city in Coles co., Ill.; on the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroads; 56 miles W. of Terre Haute, Ind. There are gas and electric light plants, waterworks, high school, public library, National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It contains the machine shops of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroad; has broom factories, grist mills, grain elevators.
Pop. (1910) 11,456; (1920) 13,552.
MATURIN (mä-tö-rēn'), a section of the Venezuelan state of Bermudez, W. of the Orinoco delta, and consisting almost entirely of llanos. The town Maturin, on the Guarapiche, has plantations of cacao, and a trade with the West Indies; its port is Colorado, 25 miles below, and a railway has been constructed to this point.
MATZOON (mat'-), a milk food used by the inhabitants of Armenia; prepared by exposing cows' milk in open vessels to a heat of 80° or 90° F., and when coagulation takes place the curd is broken up by a churning process, and a little salt is added.