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noun

Maker n.

One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator. "The universal Maker we may praise."

(Law) The person who makes a promissory note.

One who writes verses; a poet. (Obs.) Note: "The Greeks named the poet poihths, which name, as the most excellent, hath gone through other languages. It cometh of this word poiein, make; wherein, I know not whether by luck or wisdom, we Englishmen have met well the Greeks in calling him a maker."

To meet one's maker, to die.

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"Maker" Quotes from Famous Books

... the lid on, and placed in hot water over a very slow fire until it is well heated with the curd clotted from the whey. When it begins to steam the curd is drained a very short period through cheese cloth. Well mixed with salt and butter and pepper it is an ideal muscle and tissue maker. ...

— The Suffrage Cook Book • L. O. Kleber

... the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and ...

— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka

... this was not necessarily love, even in its beginning,—though she might come for a while to fancy it so,—for this one man. It was a thing between her own life and the Maker of it; an unfolding of herself toward that which waited for her in Him, and which she should surely come to, whatever she might grasp at mistakenly and miss ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... pay his creditors; and, if he do not pay them, it is impossible but he must be ruined, and, perhaps, many more with him. For traders are linked and dependent on one another; and one man's fall throws down many more with him: the shop-keeper is in debt to the maker or the merchant; and these again to the journeyman, the farmer, or the foreign correspondent; and so the ruin becomes complicated, ...

— Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford - In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew • Edward Berens

... and nothing else. That would be letting the hobby-horse run away with its owner. For the time being, then, birds should pass unnoticed, or be looked at only when they came in my way. A sensible resolve. But the maker of it was neither Mede nor Persian, as the reader, if he have patience enough, may ...

— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey

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