MATCH, MATCHED, MATCHING (equal)
ADJECTIVES
1570 ► corresponding, matching → SUIT-LIKE → obs.
1900 ► evenly matched → UP AND UP → Aust. sl.
1905 ► badly matched; awkwardly arranged → ILL-MARROWED → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► badly matched → ILL-PAIRED → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1599 ► a counterpart, equal, or match → PARALLEL
1641 ► a match, an equal; an exact counterpart or likeness → MARROW → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1711 ► something that is equal or a match to another → PAR → obs.
1841 ► the match to anything; the fellow, the equal → MATTLER → Eng. dial.
1850 ► one of a pair of objects, a match, a companion → LEFFOR → Sc.
1868 ► one of a pair that does not correspond, anything that is wrongly matched → MISMARROW → Sc.
1887 ► a match, an equal; the corresponding one of a pair → NEIGHBOUR → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1905 ► a match, equal → PARRYMYAK → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1969 ► an equal or match → MEET → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1412 ► to hold one’s own with; to keep up with; to be even with or equal to; to match → HOLD TACK WITH → obs.
1463 ► to mate, pair, match → MAKE → obs.
1488 ► to join, to associate; to match, to pair → MARROW → obs.
1589 ► to find a parallel to, to match → SUIT → obs.
1603 ► to be a match for; to match, to equal → PAIR → obs.
1603 ► to rival, equal, match → SIDE
1605 ► to assort, to match, to agree with; to befit → BESORT → obs.
1606 ► to match, to equal → PARAGONIZE → obs.
1615 ► to match, to mate → PARAGON → arch.
1634 ► to be a match for, to match → PARALLELIZE
1639 ► to be on an equality with; to match with → SIZE
1789 ► to join; to match; to marry → YOKE → Sc. & Eng. dial.
19C ► to match, to correspond → READ → Eng. dial.
1899 ► to pair wrongly, not to match rightly → MISMARROW → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 ► to match, to equal → TIP → Sc.
1878 ► to match, to equal → MELL → Sc.
1892 ► to match with, to agree with → PAIR WITH → Sc.
1898 ► to match, to resemble → AROPO → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► to match, to equal → EVEN → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► to agree, to assort, to match → SAMMER → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1905 ► to match, to equal → MATE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► to match, to mate → MATTLE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► to match or correspond → RANGE ALONG OF A THING → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1968 ► to be the equal of or match for → MEET UP WITH → Amer. dial.