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Definition of Makeweights
1. makeweight [n] - See also: makeweight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Makeweights
Literary usage of Makeweights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1913)
"Work at the laboratory in detecting substitutes and makeweights is secondary.
One agency supplements the other. In the development of the inspection service ..."
2. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"He had the debris of Anglo-Saxon prosody, presenting a scheme which, whether at
one time the " stuffings," the unaccented makeweights of its sections, ..."
3. The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the by John Chrysostom (1843)
"And would it were only for makeweights: but now it is for what are contrary and
hurtful and in no respect advantageous ..."
4. Modern Pigments and Their Vehicles: Their Properties and Uses Considered by Frederick Maire (1907)
"Possessing no coloring matter, the makeweights are certainly not entitled to the
name. Correctives — sometimes useful adjuncts to a pigment — are frequently ..."
5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by John Chrysostom, Augustine (1908)
"... we do not deal with our member so well even as with a slave, but on the contrary
make use of it for things unprofitable, and mere makeweights ?ж And ..."
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