Word Meanings - BARLEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.

• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.
• Preparative
  Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.
• Preparatively
  By way of preparation.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
• Preparator
  One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  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.
• Preparatory
  Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Make-game
  An object of ridicule; a butt.
• Prepare/
  of Prepare
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Makeless
  Matchless.

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