Mat(a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
Mat(n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
Mat(n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
Mat(n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
Mat(n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
Mat(n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
Mat(v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
Mat(v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
Mat(v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
Matted(a.) Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding.
Matted(a.) Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.
Matted(a.) Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair.
Matted(imp. & p. p.) of Mat
Matting(n.) A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
Matting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mat
Matting(v. t. & i.) The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
Matting(v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.
Matting(v. t. & i.) Materials for mats.
Matting(v. t. & i.) An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.
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