Word Meanings - STICKIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stuck; spoiled in making.

• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Stuckle
  A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.
• Stuck-up
  Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.
• 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.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Spoiled
  of Spoil
• 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.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.
• Spoiling
  of Spoil
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.

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