Word Meanings - VERSIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

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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.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• METRICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions. 2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• 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.
• 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.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• CONSTRUCTIONIST
  One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
• 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.
• POETRY
  1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions,
• MAKI
  A lemur. See Lemur.
• MAKE-BELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• CONSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
• ANEMOMETRIC; ANEMOMETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to anemometry.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• ISOPERIMETRICAL
  Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• HEXAMETRIC; HEXAMETRICAL
  Consisting of six metrical feet.
• 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.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• GASOMETRIC; GASOMETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• PLUVIAMETRICAL
  See PLUVIOMETRICAL
• SUBDIVERSIFY
  To diversify aggain what is already diversified. Sir M. Hale.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.