Index of English words, starting with "ma"

(1) - Mat (v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
(2) - Mat (v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
(3) - Mat (v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
(4) - Mat (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.
(5) - Mat (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.
(6) - Mat (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.
(7) - Mat (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.
(8) - Mat (a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
(9) - Mat (n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

(1) - Matador (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.
(2) - Matador (n.) The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.

(1) - Match (v. t.) To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
(2) - Match (v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
(3) - Match (v.) 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
(4) - Match (v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
(5) - Match (v.) A matrimonial union; a marriage.
(6) - Match (v.) An agreement, compact, etc.
(7) - Match (v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
(8) - Match (v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
(9) - Match (n.) 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.
(10) - Match (v.) 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.
(11) - Match (v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
(12) - Match (v. t.) To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
(13) - Match (v. t.) To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
(14) - Match (v. t.) To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.
(15) - Match (v. t.) To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
(16) - Match (v. t.) To marry; to give in marriage.
(17) - Match (v. t.) To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
(18) - Match (v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.
(19) - Match (v.) Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

(1) - Matchable (a.) Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.