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<h1>Makeshift</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Make"shift`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.</def>

<i>James Mill.</i>

<blockquote>I am not a model clergyman, only a decent <b>makeshift</b>. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Make-up</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Make"-up`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental <b>make-up</b>. <i>L. F. Ward.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Makeweight</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Make"weight`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.</def>

<h1>Maki</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Ma"ki</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., from native name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A lemur. See <er>Lemur</er>.</def>

<h1>Making</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Mak"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; <as>as, this is cloth of your own <ex>making</ex>; the <ex>making</ex> of peace or war was in his power.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Composition, or structure.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>a poem.</def><mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir J. Davies.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; <as>as, early misfortune was the <ex>making</ex> of him</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>External appearance; from.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Making-iron</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Mak"ing-i`ron</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Making-up</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Mak"ing-up`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called <i>proof</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.</def>

<h1>Mal-</h1> <Xpage=886>

<hw>Mal-</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. A prefix in composition denoting <i>ill</i>,or <i>evil</i>, F. <i>male</i>, adv., fr. <i>malus</i>, bad, ill. In some words it has the form <i>male-</i>, as in <i>male</i>diction, <i>male</i>volent. See <er>Malice</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; The form<i>male-</i> is chiefly used in cases where the c, either alone or with other letters, is pronounced as a separate syllable, as in <i>male</i>diction, <i>male</i>factor, <i>male</i>ficent, etc. Where this is not the case, as in <i>mal</i>feasance or <i>male</i>-feasance, <i>mal</i>formation or <i>male</i>-formation, etc., as also where the word to which it is prefixed commences with a vowel, as in <i>mal</i>administration, etc., the form <i>mal</i>is to be preferred, and is the one commonly employed.</note>