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A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.

Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Shak.

To be a mate to; to match. [Obs.] Spenser.

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. [Written also harquebus.]

A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied. Knight.

To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and Western U.S.]

birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar. "A born matchmaker." W. D. Howells. Born again (Theol.), regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." John iii. 3. -- Born days, days since one was born; lifetime.…

Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. Shak. Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. Dryden.

A drinking match; a carousal. The early feast and late carouse. Pope.

rison hastily or without due formality. (b) To make or contrive hastily. [Obs.] "Was ever match clapped up so suddenly" Shak.

A match or contest of gamecocks.

To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with. [R.] Dr. H. More.

To be equal with; to match. [R.] In my rights, By me invested, he compeers the best. Shak.

struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with. Host coped with host, dire was the din of war. Philips. Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens. Addison.

forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.

To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. [Obs.] Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be. Chaucer.

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly. To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. Shak. A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. Prescott.

Not They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner. Spectator.