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3 definitions found 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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