Word Meanings - LYE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.

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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.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• POTASSIUM
  An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K . Note: It is reduced from the carbonate
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• 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.
• SOLUTION
  The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not
• STRONG
  strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng 1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily
• 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.
• STRONGLY
  In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
• LEACH
  See LEECH
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• ASHES
  OHG. asca, G. asche, D. asch, Icel. & Sw. aska, Dan. aske, Goth. 1. The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal. 2. Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or
• STRONG-WATER
  1. An acid. 2. Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
• 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.
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• NONSOLUTION
  Failure of solution or explanation.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• 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.
• POTASHES
  Potash.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.