Word Meanings - STEREOTYPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.

• Stereotypery
  The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.
• 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.
• Employment
  The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• 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.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Procession
  The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.

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