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The act of making sublime, or state of being made sublime.

elp forward; to promote. It is a great credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanvill.

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted. Bp. Wilkins.

The act of making subtile.

In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off. [Local, U.S.]

The act or process of making sugar.

Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.

A making sure; surety. [Obs.] Every surement and every bond. Chaucer.

rface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geodesy. -- Maritime, or Nautical, surveying, that branch of surveying which determines the forms of coasts and harbors, the entrances of rivers, with the position of islands, rocks, and shoals…

of operations agreed on by the commanders of contending armies, as for burying the dead, making proposal for surrender or for peace, etc. -- Suspension scale, a scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.

A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.

The act of making sweet.

Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.

The paint used in making patent leather.

itch, v. Switching engine, a locomotive for switching cars from one track to another, and making up trains; -- called also switch engine. [U.S.]

The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substanc…

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. M. Green.