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Webster's English Dictionary

mate

n. [Sp.] The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America. ()

n. [F. mat, abbrev. fr. chec et mat. See Checkmate.] (Chess) Same as Checkmate. ()

a. See 2d Mat. (Chaucer.)

v. t. [F. mater to fatigue, enfeeble, humiliate, checkmate. See Mate checkmate.] ()

1. To confuse; to confound. (Shak.)

2. To checkmate. ()

n. [Perhaps for older make a companion; cf. also OD. maet companion, mate, D. maat. Cf. Make a companion, Match a mate.]1. One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object. ()

2. Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young. ()

3. A suitable companion; a match; an equal. ()

Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar. (Milton.)

4. (Naut.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate. ()

v. t. 1. To match; to marry. ()

If she be mated with an equal husband. (Shak.)

2. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. ()

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. (Bacon.)

I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. (Shak.)

3. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd. ()

4. To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches. ()

v. i. To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one. ()