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- English Word Masturbation Definition Onanism; self-pollution.
- English Word Masty Definition Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.
- English Word Masula boat Definition Same as Masoola boat.
- English Word Mat Definition A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
- English Word Mat Definition Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
- English Word Mat Definition 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.
- English Word Mat Definition 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.
- English Word Mat Definition 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.
- English Word Mat Definition An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
- English Word Mat Definition To cover or lay with mats.
- English Word Mat Definition To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
- English Word Mat Definition To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
- English Word Matachin Definition An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
- English Word Mataco Definition The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.
- English Word Matador Definition The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
- English Word Matador Definition 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.
- English Word Matadore Definition Alt. of Matador
- English Word Matagasse Definition A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
- English Word Matamata Definition The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.
- English Word Matanza Definition A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.
- English Word Match Definition Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
- English Word Match Definition A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
- English Word Match Definition A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
- English Word Match Definition A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
- English Word Match Definition A matrimonial union; a marriage.
- English Word Match Definition An agreement, compact, etc.
- English Word Match Definition A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- English Word Match Definition Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- English Word Match Definition Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
- English Word Match Definition A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.