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Word Meanings - EMPTYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • MAKING-IRON
    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.
  • EMPTY
    1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. 2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
  • YEAST
    A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions
  • YEASTINESS
    The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.
  • EMPTYING
    The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • MAKE-UP
    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 masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • YEAST-BITTEN
    A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.
  • MAKEWEIGHT
    That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
  • MAKE-BELIEVE
    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 and make-believe. M. Arnold.
  • CIDERIST
    A maker of cider. Mortimer.
  • MAKARON
    See 2
  • MAKING-UP
    1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
  • YEASTY
    Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.
  • MAKI
    A lemur. See Lemur.
  • MAKE-BELIEF
    A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
  • MAKE-PEACE
    A peacemaker. Shak.
  • MAKABLE
    Capable of being made.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • SAILMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
  • WIDOW-MAKER
    One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • DECIDER
    One who decides.
  • HAYMAKING
    The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
    One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
  • VLISSMAKI
    The diadem indris. See Indris.
  • MAKE
    A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
  • ROADMAKER
    One who makes roads.
  • HAYMAKER
    1. One who cuts and cures hay. 2. A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

 

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