Word Meanings - PROMISSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making a promise; implying a promise; promising.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• 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.
• 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.
• PROMISCUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being promiscuous.
• PROMISOR
  One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. Burrill.
• PROMISCUOUSLY
  In a promiscuous manner.
• PROMISER
  One who promises.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• PROMISING
  Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. -- Prom"is*ing*ly, adv.
• 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.
• MAKI
  A lemur. See Lemur.
• MAKE-BELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• MAKE-PEACE
  A peacemaker. Shak.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• 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.
• FOREPROMISED
  Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.
• 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.
• SIMPLY
  1. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely. make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make
• COMPROMISER
  One who compromises.