Index of English words, starting with "ma"

(1) - Mattery (a.) Full of substance or matter; important.
(2) - Mattery (a.) Generating or containing pus; purulent.

(1) - Matting (n.) A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
(2) - Matting (v. t. & i.) An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.
(3) - Matting (v. t. & i.) Materials for mats.
(4) - Matting (v. t. & i.) 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.
(5) - Matting (v. t. & i.) The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
(6) - Matting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mat

(1) - Mattock (n.) 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.

(1) - Mattress (n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
(2) - Mattress (n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.