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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

... this is to be her room? [He takes it in.] The noble and renowned Constance, friend and confidant of the elder Pitt, maker of history, first Lady Bantock—by Hoppner—always there to keep an eye on her, remind her of the family traditions. Brilliant idea, brilliant! [They are ...

— Fanny and the Servant Problem • Jerome K. Jerome

... person, as different as possible from the robust comeliness of his wife. With its keen sensitive-ness and its undefined melancholy it was a dreamer's face. One meets such faces, sometimes, in incongruous places and wonders what they mean. In fact, Kurt Lieders, head cabinet maker in the furniture factory of Lossing & Co., was an artist. He was, also, an incomparable artisan and the most exacting foreman in the shops. Thirty years ago he had first taken wages from the senior Lossing. He had watched a modest industry climb up to a great business, ...

— Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet

... canst not. What is incredible to thee, thou shalt not, at thy soul's peril, attempt to believe! Elsewhither for a refuge, or die here. Go to perdition if thou must, but not with a lie in thy mouth; by the eternal Maker, no!'" ...

— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... ambitious and despotic monarch, who had risen to power from the position of a poor comb maker's son, hoped by the help of these dependants to invade and conquer the whole of Scotland, and he was encouraged to the attempt by such self-seeking men as Roderic of Gigha and Erland of Jura, who made no scruple to enlist themselves in any cause that gave promise ...

— The Thirsty Sword • Robert Leighton

... cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment—giving to that word its exact significance. Man does not create forces; he employs the only force that exists and which includes all others namely Motion, the breath incomprehensible of the sovereign Maker of the universe. Species are too distinctly separated for the human hand to mingle them. The only miracle of which man is capable is done through the conjunction of two antagonistic substances. Gunpowder ...

— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac

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