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Word Meanings - UNDERMATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is not a match for another. Fuller.

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  • 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.

 

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