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Make
() Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
Makebate
() One who excites contentions and quarrels.
Make-belief
() A feigning to believe; make believe.
Make-believe
() A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
Make-believe
() Feigned; insincere.
Maked
() Made.
Make-game
() An object of ridicule; a butt.
Makeless
() Matchless.
Makeless
() Without a mate.
Make-peace
() A peacemaker.
Maker
() One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
Maker
() The person who makes a promissory note.
Maker
() One who writes verses; a poet.
Makeshift
() That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
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.
Makeweight
() That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Maki
() A lemur. See Lemur.
Making
() 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.
Making
() Composition, or structure.
Making
() a poem.
Making
() That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.
Making
() External appearance; from.
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.
Making-up
() The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
Making-up
() The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
Mal-
() 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.
Mala
() Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
Malabar
() A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
Malacatune
() See Melocoton.
Malacca
() A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
Malachite
() Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
Malacissant
() Softening; relaxing.
Malacissation
() The act of making soft or supple.
Malacobdella
() A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
Malacoderm
() One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.
Malacolite
() A variety of pyroxene.
Malacologist
() One versed in the science of malacology.
Malacology
() The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.
Malacopoda
() A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.
Malacopterygian
() One of the Malacopterygii.
Malacopterygii
() An order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny. It includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. Called also Malacopteri.
Malacopterygious
() Belonging to the Malacopterygii.
Malacosteon
() A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.
Malacostomous
() Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
Malacostraca
() A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.
Malacostracan
() One of the Malacostraca.
Malacostracology
() That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
Malacostracous
() Belonging to the Malacostraca.
Malacotoon
() See Melocoton.
Malacozoa
() An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.