A small flat piece of decorated material placed under a lamp, dish of food, or other object, A heavy woven net of rope or wire cable placed over a blasting site to keep debris from scattering, A dull, often rough finish, as of paint, glass, metal, or paper, transitive verb_ To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle, To cover or lay with mats, intransitive verb_ To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat, as hair when wetted with a sticky substance, To be packed or interwoven into a thick mass; become entangled, adjective_ obsolete Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain