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• Making

  ·noun Composition, or structure. II. Making ·noun External appearance; from. III. Making ·noun a <...

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• Pear

  ·noun The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties ...

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• pear, native

  name given to a timber-tree, Xylomelum pyriforme, Sm., N.O. Proteaceae(called also Wooden Pear), and...

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• Anchovy pear

  ·- A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora)...

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• Choke pear

  ·- A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. II. Choke pear ·- A...

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• Love-making

  ·noun <<Courtship>>. ...

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• Making-iron

  ·noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seam...

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• Making-up

  ·noun The act of becoming reconciled or friendly. II. Making-up ·noun The act of bringing spirits t...

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• Mischief-making

  ·adj Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. II. Mischief-making ·noun The act or practice of ma...

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• Money-making

  ·adj Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business. II. Money-making ·adj Su...

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• Pear-shaped

  ·adj Of the form of a pear. ...

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• Sea pear

  ·- A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia. ...

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• basket-making

  The good old trade of basket-making; copulation, or making feet for children's stockings. ...

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• choak pear

  Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was ...

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• face-making

  Begetting children. To face it out; to persist in a falsity. No face but his own: a saying of one wh...

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• native pear

  n. See hakeaand pear. ...

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• pear, wooden

  i.q. native pear. See above. ...

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• wooden pear

  n. a tree peculiar to New SouthWales and Queensland, Xylomelum pyriforme, Smith, N.O. Proteaceae; c...

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• making meat

  on the great Western prairies, consists in cutting into thin slices the boneless parts of the buffal...

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• making iron

  One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off...

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• making off

  Cutting the flensed blubber of a whale into pieces, fitted to pass in at the bilge-holes of the butt...

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• Pear Tre Court

  At the east end of Angel Alley, Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1...

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