Word Meanings - CASTELLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of making into a castle.
Related words: (words related to CASTELLATION)
- CASTLEWARD
See CASTLEGUARD - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CASTLE
1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh - 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. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - CASTLET
A small castle. Leland. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - 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. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - CASTLERY
The government of a castle. Blount. - MAKE-BELIEVE
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. - MAKARON
See 2 - MAKING-UP
1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly. - CASTLEBUILDER
Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n. - CASTLED
Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls. - MAKI
A lemur. See Lemur. - MAKE-BELIEF
A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman. - MAKE-PEACE
A peacemaker. Shak. - MAKABLE
Capable of being made. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n. - VLISSMAKI
The diadem indris. See Indris. - ROADMAKER
One who makes roads. - HAYMAKER
1. One who cuts and cures hay. 2. A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.