Word Meanings - SWALLOWTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
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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. - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - TONGUED
Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne. - TONGUE-TIED
1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak. - 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. - TONGUE-PAD
A great talker. - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - TONGUE-SHAPED
Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf. - 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. - 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. - TENONITIS
Inflammation of a tendon. - TONGUEFISH
A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States. - MAKI
A lemur. See Lemur. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - 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. - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - 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. - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - LONG-TONGUE
The wryneck. - PLEASANT-TONGUED
Of pleasing speech. - TRUMPET-TONGUED
Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.