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Webster 1913 Edition
Mat
Mat
(măt)
, Noun.
[Cf.
Matte
.] A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
[Written also
matt
.] Mat
,Adj.
[OF. See 4th
Mate
.] Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
[Obs.]
When he saw them so piteous and so
maat
. Chaucer.
3.
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.4.
An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture;
as, the
. mat
of a daguerreotypeMat grass
. (Bot.)
(a)
A low, tufted, European grass (
. Nardus stricta
)(b)
Same as
– Matweed
. Mat rush
(Bot.)
, a kind of rush (
Scirpus lacustris
) used in England for making mats.Mat
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Matted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Matting
.] 1.
To cover or lay with mats.
Evelyn.
2.
To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
And o’er his eyebrows hung his
matted
hair. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mat
MAT
,Noun.
1.
A texture of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, or other material, to be laid on a floor for cleaning the boots and shoes of those who enter a house, and for other purposes.2.
A web of rope-yard, used in ships to secure the standing rigging from the friction of the yards, &c.MAT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To twist together; to interweave like a mat; to entangle. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.
2.
To press together; to lay flat; as matted grass.