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Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Ringdove
  A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.
• Ringtail
  A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• 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.
• Ringent
  Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.
• Ring-tailed
  Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Ringer
  One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
• Ringtoss
  A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
• 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.
• Clangor
  A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
• Ringhead
  An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
• Ringworm
  A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are disti

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