| • | A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron,
   etc., usually called white metal. | 
											
															| • | Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc.,
   put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a
   daguerreotype. | 
											
															| • | To cover or lay with mats. | 
											
															| • | To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or
   like, a mat; to entangle. | 
											
															| • | To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted
   together like a mat. |