Mischief-making

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• Mischief

  ·vt To do harm to. II. Mischief ·noun Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble. III. Mischief ·noun H...

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• mischief

  A man loaded with mischief, i.e. a man with his wife on his back. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mischief

  See master of misrule. ...

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• Making

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

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• Mischief-maker

  ·noun One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity. ...

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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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• Money-making

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

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• basket-making

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• face-making

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pear making

  Taking bounties from several regiments and immediately deserting. The cove was fined in the steel fo...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• making meat

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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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