(n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
(a.) Cast down
dejected
overthrown
slain.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
(v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together
to interweave into, or like, a mat
to entangle.
(v. i.) To grow thick together
to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
matachin
(n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers
a sword dance.
mataco
(n.) The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.
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(n.) The killer
the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
(n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one.