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mast, most,
mast [mast]
n. A mast.
bed-mat, mat, Mattie, Mattie,
mat [mat]
n. A mat. A thick woollen bedcover. A sack made of matting used as a container for flax.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
bed-mat: A cover for a bed.
mattit: Matted.
match, matched, matcht, metch,
match [matʃ]
n. A match, an equal.
pt. pp. matcht
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
matchless: Matchless.
mismatcht
match-paper,
match [matʃ]
n. A match for lighting a pipe etc.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
match-paper: Brown papers soaked in saltpetre solution usued with flint or steel for lighting pipes etc.
mate, matel, matle, maytal, maytull, metel,
mate [met]
n. A comrade, companion, associate, colleague, fellow-worker, a shipmate.
v. To mate.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
matle: NN.a. A friend.
mated, matet, matit, muit, muitit, muitt, muitteet, muittit,
mate [met, MN. mat]
adj. arch. Exhausted, tired out, faint. Discomfited, worsted, confounded, vanquished, overcome.
 
matit [ˈmetɪt, MN. ˈmatɪt]
adj. Fatigued, exhausted, spent.
 
muit [S. møt]
v. To exhaust, tire out
pt. pp. muitit adj. Usually as muitit oot Spent, exhausted.
material,
material [məˈtiːrɪəl]
n. Material.
madgie, matchie, matful, matfull, matje, mattie, matty,
matfull [ˈmatˈfʌl]
n. A sexually mature herring Clupea harengus.
dim. mattie [ˈmate, MN. ˈmadʒi] A young maiden herring Clupea harengus with underdeveloped roe.
mathematic, mathmatick,
mathematic [ˈmaθ(ə)matɪk]
adj. Mathematic, of or relating to mathematics.
matilot, matlo,
matlo [I.Ork. matlo]
n. The common housefly Musca domestica.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
fish matlo: The bluebottle Calliphora vomitoria.
horse matlo: A horsefly of the genus Tabanidae.
shairnie matlo: A dung fly such as Scathophaga stercoraria.

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