2. 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.
No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct.
South. 3. To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
Eternal might
To match with their inventions they presumed
So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.
Milton. 4. 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. "Matching of patterns and colors." Swift.
5. To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit
Let poets match their subject to their strength.
Roscommon. 6. To marry; to give in marriage.
A senator of Rome survived,
Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
Addison. 7. 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.
Matching machine,
a planing machine for forming a tongue or a groove on the edge of a board.
Match
(Match), v. i.
1. To be united in marriage; to mate.
I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
Shak.
Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep.
Dryden. 2. To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases
match.