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LAKE n. 4 definitions
y precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
LAKE-DWELLER n.
See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
LAKELET n.
A little lake. Southey.
LAKER n. 2 definitions
One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n.
LAKEWEED n.
The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
LAPSTREAK; LAPSTRAKE a.
Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.
LATEWAKE n.
See Lich wake, under Lich.
LAWBREAKER n.
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
LAWMAKER n.
A legislator; a lawgiver.
MAKE n. 24 definitions
a mate; often, a husband or a wife. [Obs.] For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
MAKE AND BREAK n.
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
MAKE-BELIEF n.
A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
MAKE-BELIEVE n. 2 definitions
elieve, 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.
MAKE-GAME n.
An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
MAKE-PEACE n.
A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
MAKE-UP n.
sonating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
MAKEBATE n.
One who excites contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]
MAKED p.
Made. Chaucer.
MAKELESS a. 2 definitions
Matchless. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MAKER n. 3 definitions
One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator. The universal Maker we may praise. Milton.
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