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 or cardboard dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
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
A matrimonial union; a marriage.
An agreement, compact, etc.
A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
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.
Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
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.
To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
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.
To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
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.
To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
To marry; to give in marriage.
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.
To be united in marriage; to mate.
To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; - used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement; as, the march of time.
The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour’s march; a march of twenty miles.
A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
To cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.
