matchable (machabl)

[ To tell my forces, matchable to none, Were but lost labour, that few would beleeve. Spenser , Ruins of Time, 1. 89. The Treasury and Library of the Emperor [of Æthiopia], neyther of which is thought to be matchable in the world. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 678. Those at land that are not matchable with any upon our shores. Woodward, E ay towards a Nat. Hist. of the Earth. matchable ne (mach'a-bl-nes), n. The state or quality of being matchable. B. Jonson. match-board (mach'bord), n. In carp ., a board which has a tongue cut along one edge and a groove in the opposite edge, to enter the corresponding groove and receive the corresponding tongue of the boards to be placed in contiguity with it. Such boards are always planed smooth on one or both faces. Also called matched board. The walls consist partly of brick piers and partly of corrugated iron lined by felt and matchboard . Medical News , LII. 670.