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The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.

• Thickhead
  A thick-headed or stupid person.
• 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.
• Makable
  Capable of being made.
• 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.
• Stateroom
  A magnificent room in a place or great house.
• Thick-headed
  Having a thick skull; stupid.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Makaron
  See Macaroon, 2.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• States-general
  In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
• Thickish
  Somewhat thick.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Statesmen
  of Statesman
• Thick-knee
  A stone curlew. See under Stone.
• Becoming
  of Become

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