It were no match, your nail against his horn.
Shak.
6. Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or
harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a
match.
7. (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.
Match boarding (Carp.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove,
or prepared to be so fitted. -- 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.
Match, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Matching.] 1.
To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival
successfully; to equal.
No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that
madness.
Shak.
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.