Definition of match

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Match (v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match..

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Disproportion :: Disproportion (v. t.) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly..
Match :: Match (v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
Wive :: Wive (v. t.) To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.
Mate :: Mate (v. t.) To match; to marry.
Carouse :: Carouse (n.) A drinking match; a carousal.
Cap :: Cap (v. t.) To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs..
Cope :: Cope (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with..
Arquebuse :: 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..
Match :: Match (v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
Mate :: Mate (v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
Orgue :: 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..
Cockfight :: Cockfight (n.) A match or contest of gamecocks.
Firelock :: Firelock (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock..
Alone :: Alone (a.) Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.
Touch-box :: Touch-box (n.) A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match..
Peerless :: Peerless (a.) Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.
Mitre :: Mitre (v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction..
Match :: Match (v.) An agreement, compact, etc..
Jump :: Jump (a.) Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..
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