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Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. Matted glass, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.

An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.

g or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.:

Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

Interwoven; matted; entangled. Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part. Shak.

together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. Dryden.

The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers. To open one's mouth, to speak. -- To open up, to lay open; to discover; to disclose. Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our "bold peasantry, their country's pride." Prof. Wilson.…

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait. Dunglison.

Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

To comb or card, as wool or flax. "Teasing matted wool." Wordsworth.

Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.