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   Match, n. [OE. macche, AS. gemaecca; akin to gemaca, and to OS. gimako, OHG. gimah fitting, suitable, convenient, Icel. mark suitable, maki mate, Sw. make, Dan. mage; all from the root of E. make, v. See Make mate, and Make, v., and cf. Mate an associate.]
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   A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
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   Government . . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
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   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; specifically: (a) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; a sporting contest; an emulous struggle. “Many a warlike match.” Drayton.
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   A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
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   (b) A matrimonial union; a marriage.
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   An agreement, compact, etc. “Thy hand upon that match.” 
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   Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
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   A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage. “She . . . was looked upon as the richest match of the West.” 
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   Equality of conditions in contest or competition, or one who provides equal competition to another in a contest; as, he had no match as a swordsman within the city.
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   It were no match, your nail against his horn.
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   Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
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   (Founding) 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.
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   Match boarding (Carp.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted; a surface composed of match boarding. See matchboard. -- Match game, a game arranged as a test of superiority. -- Match plane (Carp.), either of the two planes used to shape the edges of boards which are joined by grooving and tonguing. -- Match plate (Founding), a board or plate on the opposite sides of which the halves of a pattern are fastened, to facilitate molding. Knight. -- Match wheel (Mach.), a cogwheel of suitable pitch to work with another wheel; specifically, one of a pair of cogwheels of equal size.
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