Word Meanings - ENIGMATOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of making or of solving enigmas.

• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• 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.
• 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.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Solvability
  The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.
• Solvable
  Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.
• 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.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.

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