Definition of making

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Making (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mak.

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Capacity :: Capacity (n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency..
Nodation :: Nodation (n.) Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted..
Ennoblement :: Ennoblement (n.) The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility..
Litharge :: Litharge (n.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot..
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc..
Converse :: Converse (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal..
Roselle :: Roselle (n.) a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink..
Leavening :: Leavening (n.) The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven..
Axstone :: Axstone (n.) A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets..
Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror..
Moulding :: Moulding (n.) The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder..
Fillister :: Fillister (n.) A plane for making a rabbet.
Prunello :: Prunello (n.) A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter..
Round :: Round (a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11..
Bipartition :: Bipartition (n.) The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided..
Making :: Making (n.) The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power..
Polariscopy :: Polariscopy (n.) The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
Reef :: Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.
Traveler :: Traveler (n.) A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc..
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