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Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (/ Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses.

• FIBEREDFIBRED
  Having fibers; made up of fibers.
• Grassless
  Destitute of grass.
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Make-up
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
• FIBERFACEDFIBREFACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• Grassplot
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• FIBERLESSFIBRELESS
  Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
• Bladesmith
  A sword cutler.
• Grass tree
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat
• GRASSGROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• Countries
  of Country
• 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.
• Makable
  Capable of being made.
• 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.

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