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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Make \Make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Made}; p. pr & vb n.
{Making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS macian; akin to OS mak?n,
OFries makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to join fit
prepare, make Dan. mage. Cf {Match} an equal.]
1. To cause to exist; to bring into being to form to
produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence in
various specific uses or applications:
a To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain
form to construct; to fabricate.
He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after
he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii
4.
b To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or
false; -- often with up as to make up a story.
And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To
excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser.
c To bring about to bring forward; to be the cause or
agent of to effect, do perform, or execute; -- often
used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the
simple verb that corresponds to such noun as to make
complaint, for to complain; to make record of for to
record; to make abode, for to abide, etc
Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.
--Judg. xvi.
25.
Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix.
4.
I will neither plead my age nor sickness in
excuse of the faults which I have made
--Dryden.
d To execute with the requisite formalities; as to make
a bill, note, will deed, etc
e To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get as
profit; to make acquisition of to have accrue or
happen to one as to make a large profit; to make an
error; to make a loss to make money.
He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck
a second time. --Bacon.
f To find as the result of calculation or computation;
to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or
amount of by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and
the like as he made the distance of to travel over
as the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the
distance in one day
h To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to
thrive.
Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
--Dryden.
2. To cause to be or become to put into a given state verb
or adjective; to constitute; as to make known to make
public; to make fast
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex.
ii 14.
See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii.
1.
Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive
pronoun is often omitted; as to make merry; to make
bold; to make free etc
3. To cause to appear to be to constitute subjectively; to
esteem, suppose, or represent.
He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make
him --Baker.
4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause
to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and
infinitive.
Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually
omitted.
I will make them hear my words --Deut. iv
10.
They should be made to rise at their early hour.
--Locke.
5. To become to be or to be capable of being changed or
fashioned into to do the part or office of to furnish
the material for as he will make a good musician; sweet
cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak.
6. To compose, as parts ingredients, or materials; to
constitute; to form to amount to
The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller.
7. To be engaged or concerned in [Obs.]
Gomez, what makest thou here with a whole
brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden.
8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of ``And
make the Libyan shores.'' --Dryden.
They that sail in the middle can make no land of
either side --Sir T.
Browne.
{To make a bed}, to prepare a bed for being slept on or to
put it in order
{To make a card} (Card Playing), to take a trick with it
{To make account}. See under {Account}, n.
{To make account of}, to esteem; to regard.
{To make away}.
a To put out of the way to kill; to destroy. [Obs.]
If a child were crooked or deformed in body or
mind, they made him away --Burton.
b To alienate; to transfer; to make over [Obs.]
--Waller.
{To make believe}, to pretend; to feign; to simulate.
{To make bold}, to take the liberty; to venture.
{To make the cards} (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack.
{To make choice of}, to take by way of preference; to choose
{To make danger}, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl
{To make default} (Law), to fail to appear or answer.
{To make the doors}, to shut the door. [Obs.]
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out
at the casement. --Shak.
{To make free with}. See under {Free}, a.
{To make good}. See under {Good}.
{To make head}, to make headway.
{To make light of}. See under {Light}, a.
{To make little of}.
a To belittle.
b To accomplish easily.
{To make love to}. See under {Love}, n.
{To make meat}, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq.
Western U. S.]
{To make merry}, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.
{To make much of}, to treat with much consideration,,
attention, or fondness; to value highly.
{To make no bones}. See under {Bone}, n.
{To make no difference}, to have no weight or influence; to
be a matter of indifference.
{To make no doubt}, to have no doubt.
{To make no matter}, to have no weight or importance; to make
no difference.
{To make oath} (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something
in a prescribed form of law.
{To make of}.
a To understand or think concerning; as not to know
what to make of the news
b To pay attention to to cherish; to esteem; to
account. ``Makes she no more of me than of a slave.''
--Dryden.
{To make one's law} (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's
self of a charge.
{To make out}.
a To find out to discover; to decipher; as to make out
the meaning of a letter.
b To prove; to establish; as the plaintiff was unable
to make out his case.
c To make complete or exact; as he was not able to make
out the money.
{To make over}, to transfer the title of to convey; to
alienate; as he made over his estate in trust or in fee.
{To make sail}. (Naut.)
a To increase the quantity of sail already extended.
b To set sail.
{To make shift}, to manage by expedients; as they made shift
to do without it [Colloq.].
{To make sternway}, to move with the stern foremost; to go or
drift backward.
{To make strange}, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if
surprised; to treat as strange; as to make strange of a
request or suggestion.
{To make suit to}, to endeavor to gain the favor of to
court.
{To make sure}. See under {Sure}.
{To make up}.
a To collect into a sum or mass; as to make up the
amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.
b To reconcile; to compose; as to make up a difference
or quarrel.
c To supply what is wanting in to complete; as a
dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.
d To compose, as from ingredients or parts to shape,
prepare, or fabricate; as to make up a mass into
pills; to make up a story.
He was all made up of love and charms!
--Addison.
e To compensate; to make good; as to make up a loss
f To adjust or to arrange for settlement; as to make
up accounts.
g To dress and paint for a part as an actor; as he was
well made up
{To make up a face}, to distort the face as an expression of
pain or derision.
{To make up one's mind}, to reach a mental determination; to
resolve.
{To make water}.
a (Naut.) To leak.
b To urinate.
{To make way}, or {To make one's way}.
a To make progress; to advance.
b To open a passage; to clear the way
{To make words}, to multiply words
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Making \Mak"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who makes workmanship; fabrication;
construction; as this is cloth of your own making; the
making of peace or war was in his power.
2. Composition, or structure.
3. a poem. [Obs.] --Sir J. Davies.
4. That which establishes or places in a desirable state or
condition; the material of which something may be made
as early misfortune was the making of him
5. External appearance; from [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
making
n : the act that results in something coming to be "the
devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans";
"the making of measurements" [syn: {devising}, {fashioning}]
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