Word Meanings - CEROGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax. 2. A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Related words: (words related to CEROGRAPHY)
- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - STEREOTYPER
One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry. - 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. - METHOD
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course; - STEREOTYPE
1. A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing. Note: A stereotype, or stereotypr plate, is made by setting movable type as - METHODIZE
To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator. - METHODIC; METHODICAL
1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison. - METHODIOS
The art and principles of method. - 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. - 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. - METHODIST
One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from - METHODIZER
One who methodizes. - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - METHODOLOGICAL
Of or pertaining to methodology. - METHODISM
The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton. - INSCRIBABLE
Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures. - 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 - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - 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. - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n. - VLISSMAKI
The diadem indris. See Indris. - ROADMAKER
One who makes roads.