Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In South African Dutch, tame: applied especially to Kafirs who have come under European influences.
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- verb Wearside to
make
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- noun a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda
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Examples
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Similarly, in the Arabic language, which however has been a written one only since the seventh century A.D., the term makām designates the place of a saint or of a holy tomb (Jammer, p. 27).
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Although, if I were the carriers, I would be quick to sidle up to governments for a quid pro quo transaction — “we’ll give you free use of our network for municipal purposes if you get behind us in making the content providers pay their fairshare.”
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For example, a Christmas delicacy called makówki, made traditionally in the region of Upper Silesia in the south of Poland, consists of layers of sliced bread or baguette soaked in a sweet mixture of ground poppy seeds, milk, nuts, almonds, raisins, orange peel and sugar.
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dulu ko selalu cakap. kalau down ko akan call mak ko.
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The objections against the application were, that should Congress comply with it, others of a similar nature would he made; that if the lines of the army were com - pleat, which ought to be insisted upon, such extra aid would be unnecessary; that the condition of the finances would not admit of new demands; that the adoption of such a measure would seem to exclude the idea of mak - ing the exertions of particular States for their own de - fence an object of publick charge, except in cases which had been specially provided for by Congress.
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Rehoboth said old Deborah was renewing her youth; for she had been known to laugh and croon, and more than once purse up her old lips to sing a snatch of nursery rhyme -- a thing which in the past she had denounced as tending to 'mak' childer hush't wi 'th' songs o 'sin.'
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They hing on to you like leeches, an 'mak' a mess o 'things at the en'.
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Jist try an 'mak' her believe, when you speak, that she had gane awa 'to the store a message, or to the well for watter, an' that she had bidden owre lang, as she an 'ither weans used to do when they got started the play, an' forget to come hame.
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There wasna a twa-shilliny bit to be gotten, so Bandy had to tak 'the lid o' a sweetie-bottle an 'mak' the best o't.
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"Noo, juist see an 'mak' yersels a 'at hame," said Mistress Mikaver, in her uswal fizzy kind o 'wey.
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