Mate
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
(2): ( v. t.) To checkmate.
(3): ( n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
(4): ( n.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
(5): ( n.) 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.
(6): ( v. t.) To match; to marry.
(7): ( n.) Same as Checkmate.
(8): ( v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
(9): ( n.) 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.
(10): ( a.) See 2d Mat.
(11): ( v. t.) To confuse; to confound.
(12): ( 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Mate, n.
1. A companion an associate one who customarily associates with another. Young persons nearly of an age, and frequently associating, are called mates or playmates. 2. A husband or wife. 3. The male or female of animals which associate for propagation and the care of their young. 4. One that eats at the same table. 5. One that attends the same school a school-mate. 6. An officer in a merchant ship or ship of war, whose duty is to assist the master or commander. In a merchant ship, the mate,in the absence of the master, takes command of the ship. Large ships have a first, second, and third mate.
In general, mate, in compound words, denotes an assistant, and ranks next in subordination to the principal as master's mate surgeon's mate, &c.
Mate, n. In chess, the state of the king so situated that he cannot escape.
Mate, To match to marry.
1. To equal to be equal to.
For thus the mastful chestnut mates the skies.
2. To oppose to equal.
--I 1th' way of loyalty and truth,
Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.
Mate, To enervate to subdue to crush.
Audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. Not used.
