Word Meanings - MASHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, mashes; also , a machine for making mash. 2. A charmer of women. London Punch.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• 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.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• PUNCHER
  One who, or that which, punches.
• PUNCHY
  Short and thick, or fat.
• PUNCHINELLO
  A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• LONDON
  The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
• LONDONER
  A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
• CHARMER
  1. One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. Deut. xviii. 11. 2. One who delights and attracts the affections.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• PUNCHEON
  A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• WOMEN
  pl. of Woman.
• PUNCHIN
  See PUNCHEON
• 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.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• 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.
• PRICKPUNCH
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.