Word Meanings - CUTTLEBONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Powdermill
  A mill in which gunpowder is made.
• Various
  Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.
• Powder-posted
  Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
• Variously
  In various or different ways.
• 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.
• Powdery
  Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Shelled
  of Shell
• 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.
• Polished
  of Polish

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