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The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Openness
  The quality or state of being open.
• OPENHEARTHSTEEL
  See under Open.
• OPENMOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• Openwork
  Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
• OPENSEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• 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.
• Operation
  The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• OPENVERDICT
  A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.
• Makaron
  See Macaroon, 2.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• Windpipe
  The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

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