Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mating"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mate \Mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mating}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mating
n : the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: {coupling},
{pairing}, {conjugation}, {union}, {sexual union}]
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