Word Meanings - MAKE-UP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ACTOR
  1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• PAINT
  1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. 2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. Let her paint an inch thick. Shak.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• PERSONATE
  1. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. Hammond. 2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise;
• UNTHINKER
  A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• DRESSY
  Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• OMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• REFRACTOR
  Anything that refracts; specifically:
• REDACTOR
  One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.
• MALEFACTOR
  1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.