Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MATCH, v.t.¹

1. To equal. No settled senses of the world can match / The pleasure of that madness. Shak.
2. To show an equal. No history or antiquity can match his policies and his conduct. South.
3. To oppose as equal; to set against as equal in contest. Eternal might / To match with their inventions they presumed / So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn. Milton.
4. To suit; to make equal; to proportion. Let poets match their subject to their strength. Roscommon. To match patterns and colors. Swift.
5. To marry; to give in marriage. A senator of Rome, while Rome survived, / Would not have match'd his daughter with a king. Addison.
6. To purify vessels by burning a match in them.