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▪ I. matted, ppl. a.1|ˈmætɪd|
[f. mat v.2 + -ed1.]
Dulled, deprived of lustre or gloss. (See senses of the vb.)
1823Rutter Fonthill 15 Lights glazed with matted glass in lozenge lattice. 1865Price List of Joinery 8 Front Doors..glazed with matted glass. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 173 The granular surface formed on watch plates and wheels prior to gilding is spoken of indifferently as matted or frosted. 1899Westm. Gaz. 27 June 1/3 A fine silver-gilt Jacobean goblet..with foliage and cone ornament on matted ground.
▪ II. matted, ppl. a.2|ˈmætɪd|
[f. mat v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Laid or spread with matting or mats.
1607Middleton Fam. Love iv. i. 116 Like a horsekeeper in a lady's matted chamber at midnight. 1712Steele Spect. No. 429 ⁋12 He has chosen an Apartment with a matted Anti-chamber. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. i, The various solicitors..ranged in a line, in a long matted well. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. vi, The servant led us down a matted passage.
b. Formed of mats as a covering.
1720De Foe Capt. Singleton viii. (1840) 141 We pitched our matted tents. 1841J. L. Stephens Centr. Amer. II. iii. 47 The little matted tents of the market-women.
c. Made of plaited rushes. Of chairs, etc.: Rush-bottomed.
1692Dryden Cleomenes Prol. 6 Who..print our matted seats with dirty feet. 1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5891/4 Tho. Smith, Citizen and Turner, of that Branch called a matted Chair-maker, is in want of Journeymen..either for Matting, Turning, Joining or Carving, in the said matted Chair business... Tho. Smith maketh..all sorts of matted Work, and fine mimick Wallnut-Tree. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xxvi. (1841) I. 266 The ordinary matted chairs. 1777W. Dalrymple Trav. Sp. & Port. xv, We find..matted bottom chairs, in their principal rooms. 1833Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §2145 A child's chair..having..a matted seat.
2. Of vegetable growths, also of hair or other fibre: Tangled and interlaced, or covered with tangle.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 696 The places in their Winter..covered with water, doe grow thicke and matted with abundance of little trees, herbes and plants. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac., High Constable (1860) 36 His matted noddle is so stuft with the windy conceit of his mastership, that [etc.]. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋19 [He] Teizes his Wooll, by opening all the hard and almost matted Knots he finds in it. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iv. 36 Through the Matted Grass the liquid Gold shall creep. 1745Collins Ode Death Col. Ross vii, Her matted tresses madly spread. 1749Warton Tri. Isis 57 Cam meandering thro' the matted reeds. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 349 Those matted woods, where birds forget to sing. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. vi, The grass sprung up long and matted. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. i, Half savage as the man showed, with no covering on his matted head. 1877Black Green Past. xlii, The matted underwood and the rank green grass.
b. In names of plants, as matted pink, matted thrift.
1625Bacon Ess., Gardens (Arb.) 558 Then Pincks, specially the Matted Pinck, and Cloue Gilly-flower. 1678Phillips, Matted, an Epithete given to Plants when they grow, as if they were platted together, as Matted Pink, Matweed, &c. 1706London & Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. xxi. 98 Matted Pink. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 254 Matted Thrift.
c. Compressed into the semblance of a mat.
1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 168 Loosen the earth and matted roots. 1831Willis Poem Brown University 175 Tender moss, and matted forest leaves. 1845Florist's Jrnl. 148 The roots are very apt to get matted in the pots. 1849Murchison Siluria xii. 295 Such Lower Coal..had been often transported in large matted masses from the mouths of great rivers.
d. Covered with a dense growth.
1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 79 By thee the plowshare rends the matted plain. 1818Keats Endym. i. 151 His eye Steadfast upon the matted turf he kept. 1877Bryant Song of Sower iv, The matted sward. 1881M. Arnold Westm. Abbey ii, That new Minster in the matted fen.
e. Path.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 121 The ascitic fluid is sometimes loculated between the matted intestines. 1899Ibid. VI. 10 The matted valves may remain rigidly fixed.
3. Enclosed or wrapped in matting. Also with up.
1758Gray Let. 2 Dec. Wks. (1884) II. 388 A wainscot Chest of Drawers, matted up. Ibid., If the matted things fright you on the same account [sc. the danger of fire], the coverings may be taken off, and laid by in some dry place. 1798Hull Advertiser 15 Dec. 2/1 For Sale,..10 tons Riga matted flax. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 86 Flax... In Matted Bales, with thick ropes. 1855Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xxvii, The matted-up currant bushes..at the corner of the west-wall.
Hence ˈmattedly adv., in a matted manner.
1894Du Maurier Trilby I. 87 More greasily, mattedly unkempt than even a successful pianist has any right to be. |