Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MATE, v.t.¹

1. To match; to marry. Spenser. Shak.
2. To equal; to be equal to. For thus the mastful chestnut mates the skies. Dryden.
3. To oppose; to equal. I i' th' way of loyalty and truth, / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. Shak.