Word Meanings - INQUIRENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning. Shenstone.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• 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.
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• INQUIRINGLY
  In an inquiring manner.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• INQUIRER
  One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.
• INQUIRING
  Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind.
• 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.
• QUESTION
  1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer. 2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some
• 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.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• QUESTIONNAIRE
  = Questionary, above.
• QUESTIONLESS
  Unquestioning; incurious.
• INQUIRY
  1. The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning. He could no path nor track of foot descry, Nor by inquiry learn, nor guess by aim. Spenser. The men which were sent from Cornelius
• 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
• INQUIRENT
  Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning. Shenstone.
• MAKING-UP
  1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
• 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.
• UNQUESTIONABLE
  1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• VLISSMAKI
  The diadem indris. See Indris.
• UNQUESTIONED
  1. Not called in question; not doubted. 2. Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into. Shak. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden. 3. Indisputable; not