Word Meanings - SMOKELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Making or having no smoke. "Smokeless towers." Pope.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - 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. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - 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. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - 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. - SMOKEHOUSE
A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - SMOKELESS POWDER
A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke. - HAVING
Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak. - HAVIOR
Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - SMOKESTACK
A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc. - 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. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - 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. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - BESMOKE
1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson. - 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.