Word Meanings - UNDERMATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who is not a match for another. Fuller.
Related words: (words related to UNDERMATCH)
- ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - MATCHLOCK
An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match. - MATCH-CLOTH
A coarse cloth. - MATCH PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play. - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - MATCHMAKING
1. The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning. 2. The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others. - MATCH GAME
A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games. - MATCH-COAT
A coat made of match-cloth. - MATCH
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 dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by - FULLERY
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on. - ANOTHER-GAINES
Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney. - MATCHLESS
1. Having no equal; unequaled. "A matchless queen." Waller. 2. Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. "Matchless ears." Spenser. -- Match"less*ly, adv. -- Match"less*ness, n. - ANOTHER-GATES
Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras. - MATCHABLE
Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent. -- Match"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill. - MATCHER
One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match. - MISMATCH
To match unsuitably. - IMMATCHABLE
Matchless; peerless. Holland. - PARLOR MATCH
A friction match that contains little or no sulphur. - UNDERMATCH
One who is not a match for another. Fuller. - OVERMATCH
1. To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish. Drayton. 2. To marry to a superior. Burton. - BICKFORD FUSE; BICKFORD FUZE; BICKFORD MATCH
A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.