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The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
• 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.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Machinery
  Machines, in general, or collectively.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• 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.
• 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.
• Makaron
  See Macaroon, 2.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Operation
  The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.

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