Available Definitions:
1) v. t. & i. - The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
2) 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.
3) v. t. & i. - Materials for mats.
4) v. t. & i. - An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.
5) n. - A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
6) 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.
7) v. t. - To cover or lay with mats.
8) v. t. - To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
9) v. i. - To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.