MPage 81
- English Word Matted Definition Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.
- English Word Matted Definition Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair.
- English Word Matted Definition of Mat
- English Word Matter Definition That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment.
- English Word Matter Definition That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.
- English Word Matter Definition That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme.
- English Word Matter Definition That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business.
- English Word Matter Definition Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter ? no matter, and the like.
- English Word Matter Definition Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.
- English Word Matter Definition Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite.
- English Word Matter Definition Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.
- English Word Matter Definition That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form.
- English Word Matter Definition Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing.
- English Word Matter Definition To be of importance; to import; to signify.
- English Word Matter Definition To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
- English Word Matter Definition To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.
- English Word Matter-of-fact Definition Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
- English Word Mattered Definition of Matter
- English Word Mattering Definition of Matter
- English Word Matterless Definition Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.
- English Word Matterless Definition Unimportant; immaterial.
- English Word Mattery Definition Generating or containing pus; purulent.
- English Word Mattery Definition Full of substance or matter; important.
- English Word Matting Definition The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
- English Word Matting Definition 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.
- English Word Matting Definition Materials for mats.
- English Word Matting Definition An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.
- English Word Matting Definition A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
- English Word Matting Definition of Mat
- English Word Mattock Definition An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.