Word Meanings - SUPERALIMENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - NATURALIST
1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell. - 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. - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - NATURAL
Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info) - NATURALIZE
1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of - OVERFEED
To feed to excess; to surfeit. - 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. - NATURALNESS
The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature. - 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. - EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; - NATURALISM
The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting - NATURALLY
In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously. - EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - 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. - SUPERNATURALNESS
The quality or state of being supernatural. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - PRETERNATURALITY
Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith. - 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. - SUPERNATURAL
Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - SUPERNATURALISM
The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n. - VLISSMAKI
The diadem indris. See Indris.