Part 6888

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<h1>Matter</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"ter</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He did not <b>matter</b> cold nor hunger. <i>H. Brooke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Matterless</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"ter*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Not being, or having, matter; <as>as, <ex>matterless</ex> spirits</as>.</def>

<i>Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Unimportant; immaterial.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Matter-of-fact</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"ter-of-fact"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.</def>

<h1>Mattery</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"ter*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Generating or containing pus; purulent.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Full of substance or matter; important.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Matting</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"ting</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Mat</er>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Materials for mats.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>An ornamental border. See 3d <er>Mat</er>, 4.</def>

<h1>Matting</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"ting</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Matte</er>.]</ety> <def>A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.</def>

<h1>Mattock</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"tock</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>mattuc</ets>; cf. W. <ets>matog</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>'T is you must dig with <b>mattock</b> and with spade. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Mattowacca</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat`to*wac"ca</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Indian name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An American clupeoid fish (<spn>Clupea mediocris</spn>), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also <altname>hickory shad</altname>, <altname>tailor shad</altname>, <altname>fall herring</altname>, and <altname>shad herring</altname>.</def>

<h1>Mattress</h1> <Xpage=903>

<hw>Mat"tress</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>materas</ets>, F. <ets>matelas</ets>, LL. <ets>matratium</ets>; cf. Sp. & Pg. al<ets>madraque</ets>, Pr. al<ets>matrac</ets>; all from Ar. <ets>ma&tsdot;rah</ets> a place where anything is thrown, what is thrown under something, fr. <ets>&tsdot;araha</ets> to throw.]</ety>