Mat

·vt To cover or lay with mats.

II. Mat ·adj Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.

III. Mat ·vi To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

IV. Mat ·noun A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, ·etc., usually called white metal.

V. Mat ·vt To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to Entangle.

VI. Mat ·noun 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.

VII. Mat ·noun An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, ·etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.

VIII. Mat ·noun 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.

IX. Mat ·noun 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.