Word Meanings - SPEECHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of making a speech.

• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• 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.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• 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.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• 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.
• Speechful
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.
• Speechification
  The act of speechifying.
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.
• Speechifier
  One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer.
• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.

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