Word Meanings - DISTICH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• COUPLE
  See COUPLE-CLOSE (more info) 1. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size
• 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.
• COMPLETE
  Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. Syn. -- See Whole. (more info) 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate.
• COUPLER
  One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars. Coupler of an organ, a contrivance by which any two or more of the ranks of keys, or keys and pedals, are connected so as to act together when the organ is played.
• COMPLETENESS
  The state of being complete.
• COUPLET
  Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.
• EPIGRAMMATIST
  One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• 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.
• EPIGRAMMATIC; EPIGRAMMATICAL
  1. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet. 2. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.
• POETICALLY
  In a poetic manner.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• POETICULE
  A poetaster. Swinburne.
• EPIGRAMMATICALLY
  In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
• 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
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
• CHYLOPOETIC
  Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• CHILLINESS
  1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• MELANCHOLINESS
  The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• KINGLINESS
  The state or quality of being kingly.
• BEASTLINESS
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.