2. Verb. (third-person singular of match) ¹
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Definition of Matches
1. match [v] - See also: match
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matches
Literary usage of Matches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"On some Results of Experiments on Lucifer matches and others ignited by Friction.
By Professor ABEL, F.ILS. Having mentioned the components of the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"Poisoning Ъу a Decoction of Chemical matches.—Dr. FERRARI gives us tho following
... A seller of matches, aged 22, half an idiot, accused of theft, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The matches so prepared, when brought into contact with the sulphuric acid ...
It appears also that in the same year phosphorus matches were known in Paris ..."
4. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States of by United States, William Mark McKinney, Thomas H. Calvert (1917)
"The manufacturer of the white phosphorus matches herein contained has complied
... Every manufacturer of white phosphorus matches who neglects to affix such ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"If the plaintiff had actually received the five car loads of matches: ... It is
true that he claims that he had taken orders to deliver matches out of this ..."
6. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"tion to be used alone for heading matches, the matches so formed would not be
practically useful. The patent likewise includes the preparation of aqueous ..."
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