Word Meanings - DRESSMAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.

• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• 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.
• MAKINGIRON
  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.
• Occupation
  The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.
• Procession
  The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.
• Processional
  Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.
• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
• Processionalist
  One who goes or marches in a procession.

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