match sb. (“set a match”: see SET vb.)
1.
opponent,
antagonist
2H6 V. ii. 10
“ to I have
encounter'd him.”
2.
contest viewed with
regard to the equality or inequality of the parties
Troil. IV. v. 46
“It were no , your
nail against his horn,”
V. iv. 28
“art thou for Hector's
?,”
Ham. II. ii. 501 [493] “Unequal ” (Qq “matcht”).
3.
agreement, compact,
bargain
Wiv. II. ii. 307
“the hour is fixed, the
is
made,”
Mer.V. III. i. 48
“another bad ,”
3H6 III. ii. 57, Troil. IV. v. 37, 269, Cym. III. vi. 30; “a match!,” agreed!,
done! Tp. II. i. 35, Shr. V. ii. 74, Rom. II. iv. 76.
