MAKE AND BREAK
Make and break. (Elec.)
Defn: Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
MAKEBATE
Make"bate`, n. Etym: [Make, v. + bate a quarrel.]
Defn: One who excites contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]
MAKE-BELIEF
Make"-be*lief`, n.
Defn: A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
MAKE-BELIEVE
Make"-be*lieve`, n.
Defn: 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.
MAKE-BELIEVE
Make"-be*lieve`, a.
Defn: Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." G. Eliot.