Word Meanings - VERSIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

• Make-peace
  A peacemaker.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Composition
  The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• 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.
• Construction
  The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Constructional
  Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Constructionist
  One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
• 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.
• 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.

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