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- Match - n. - Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
- Match - v. - A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
- Match - v. - A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
- Match - v. - A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
- Match - v. - A matrimonial union; a marriage.
- Match - v. - An agreement, compact, etc.
- Match - v. - A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- Match - v. - Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- Match - v. - Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
- Match - v. - A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
- Match - v. t. - To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
- Match - v. t. - To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
- Match - v. t. - To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
- Match - v. t. - To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.
- Match - v. t. - To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
- Match - v. t. - To marry; to give in marriage.
- Match - v. t. - To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
- Match - v. i. - To be united in marriage; to mate.
- Match - v. i. - To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
- Match-cloth - n. - A coarse cloth.
- Match-coat - n. - A coat made of match-cloth.
- Matchable - a. - Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.
- Matched - imp. & p. p. - of Match
- Matcher - n. - One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.
- Matching - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Match
- Done - infinitive. - It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.
- Mitre - v. t. - To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.
- Main - n. - A match at cockfighting.
- Smift - n. - A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.
- Disparage - v. t. - To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
- Main - n. - A hand or match at dice.
- Cope - v. t. - To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.
- Harquebuse - n. - A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
- Arquebuse - n. - A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.
- Squib - a. - A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
- Game - v. i. - The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
- Touch-paper - n. - Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
- Auget - n. - A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
- Mitre - v. i. - To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
- Mate - v. t. - To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
- Matchlock - n. - An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
- Orgue - n. - A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
- Light - v. i. - To become ignited; to take fire; as, the match will not light.
- Lunt - n. - The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.
- Cockfight - n. - A match or contest of gamecocks.
- Match - v. t. - To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
- Match - v. t. - To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
- Grappling - n. - A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
- Fusee - n. - A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.
- Wive - v. t. - To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.