Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Makable

Mak″a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being made.

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Makaron

Mak″a‐ron (?), n. See Macaroon, 2.

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Make

Make (?), n. [AS. maca, gemaca. See Match.] A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.For in this world no woman isWorthy to be my make. Chaucer.

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Make (2)

Make, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Made (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Making.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak�n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh�n to join, fit, prepa...

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Make (3)

Make (?), v. i. 1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; — often in the phrase to meddle or make.A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to medd...

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Make (4)

Make, n. Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.It our perfection of so frail a makeAs every plot can undermine and shake? Dryden.On the make, bent...

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Make and break

Make and break. (Elec.) Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.

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Make-belief

Make″–be‐lief′ (?), n. A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

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Make-believe

Make″–be‐lieve′ (?), n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. “Childlike make-believe.” Tylor.To forswear self-delusion an...

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Make-believe (2)

Make″–be‐lieve′, a. Feigned; insincere. “Make-believe reverence.” G. Eliot.

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Make-game

Make″–game′ (?), n. An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

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Make-peace

Make″–peace′ (–pēs′), n. A peacemaker. Shak.

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Make-up

Make″–up′ (?), n. The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.The unthinking ...

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Makebate

Make″bate′ (?), n. [Make, v. + bate a quarrel.] One who excites contentions and quarrels.

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Maked

Mak″ed (?), obs.p. p. of Make. Made. Chaucer.

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Makeless

Make″less, a. [See 1st Make, and cf. Matchless, Mateless.] 1. Matchless. Chaucer.2. Without a mate. Shak.

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Maker

Mak″er (māk″ẽr), n. 1. One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.The universal Maker we may praise. Milton.2. (Law) The person who makes a promis...

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Makeshift

Make″shift′ (māk″shĭft′), n. That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill.I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.

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Makeweight

Make″weight′ (�), n. That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

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Maki

‖Ma″ki (?), n.(Zoöl.) A lemur. See Lemur.

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Making

Mak″ing (?), n. 1. The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.2. Composi...

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Making-iron

Mak″ing–i′ron (?), n. A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.

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Making-up

Mak″ing–up′ (?), n. 1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.

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Mal-

Mal– (măl–). A prefix in composition denoting ill, or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.☞ ...

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Mala

‖Ma″la (?), n.; pl. of Malum. Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.Mala in se(Law), offenses which are such from their own nature, at common law, irrespective of statut...

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Malabar

Mal″a‐bar′ (?), n. A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.Malabar nut(Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, th...

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Malacatune

Mal′a‐ca‐tune″ (?), n. See Melocoton.