make 
lish the fortune, independence, fame, or stand- 
ing of. 
There's enough [money] to make us all. 
Khuk., I Hen. IV., II. 2. 60. 
If I can get her, I am made for ever. 
l-'Mclier. Hnle a Wife, I. 6. 
In these moments ... he must make or mar himself 
for life. Triillope, Castle Richmond, xxx. 
13. To bring about or to pass; be the agent 
in cloint,'. |irrloniiin<,'. or effecting; accomplish, 
iMimiiiiitr, or achieve by effort or agency; 
effect: as, tomato peace; the waves made havoc 
on the coast; he made the distance in one hour; 
the earth makes yearly revolutions round the 
sun ; the ship made ten knots an hour ; to makt 
a hearty meal ; to make a landing, a survey, or 
a visit. Make is used periphrastlcally, with an object 
(with or without a possessive or an adjective preceding or a 
prepositional adjunct following), in a great variety of anal- 
ogous applications, where the action may be expressed by 
a verb corresponding to the object: as, to make haste, 
choice, complaint, provision, delivery, mention, etc.; to 
make an appearance, one's escape, a halt, a pretense, etc. ; 
equivalent to hasten, choose, complain, provide, deliver, 
mention, appear, escape, halt, pretend, etc. 
And also in the Contrees where I have ben, ben manye 
dyversitees of manye wondirfnlle thtnges, mo thanne I 
make inencloun of. MandenUe, Travels, p. 314. 
Orete mervelle hadde Pendragon that Merlin com not 
as he hadde made promyse, till that merlin drow hym 
a syde. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 47. 
Desyre him cum and make me aide. 
Sang of the Outlaw Murray (Child's Ballads, VI. 80). 
Make ye marriages with us. (ien. xxxiv. 9. 
There is a brief, how many sports are ripe ; 
Make choice of which your highness will see first. 
Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. 43. 
I am making a slow recovery ; hardly yet able to walk 
across the room. Sydney Smith, To Mrs. Meynell. 
A gnat's wings make ten or fifteen thousand strokes per 
second. //. Spencer, Prin. of Psycho!., 91. 
14. To bring or draw in or into possession; 
acquire or attain; gain, get, or obtain: as, to 
iimkf money or profit ; to make so many points 
in a game ; to make a fortune or a reputation ; 
in a negative sense, to make a loss. 
Of mine owne Countrey I haue not made so great experi- 
ence. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 258. 
Captain Swan . . . thought It convenient to make what 
Interest he could with the Sultan. 
Dampier, Voyages, I. 354. 
15. To determine or conclude to be; hold or 
reckon, after computation, trial, or considera- 
tion: as, I make the sum larger than you do; 
he made the weight 17 pounds ; what do you 
miikr her f I make her (or make her out) a full- 
rigged ship ; to make much, little, or great a8- 
count of anything. 
' The Pilots about noone made themselues Southwards 
of the lies twelne leagues. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smiths Works, II. 118. 
i Mir School-men and other Divines make nine kinds of 
bad Spirits. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 119. 
Was this becoming such a Saint as they would make 
him, to adulterat those Sacred words from the grace of 
God to the acts of his own grace ? Milton, Eikonoklastes, v. 
16. To bring within reach or view; come in 
sight of ; reach or attain to ; fetch up or arrive 
at, as a point in space : as, to make a port or 
harbor. 
On fryday the 11. of May we made land, it was somewhat 
low, where appeared certaine hummocks or hills in it. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 105. 
They that sail in the middle can make no land of either 
side. sir T. Broirne, Vulg. Err. 
We could only make Bethany before the night came. 
L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 40. 
17. To bring into force or operation ; cause to 
be effective or available. 
Powhatan and all the power he could make would after 
come kill vs all. if they that brought it could not kill vs 
with onr owne weapons. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 212. 
Kor those kings which have sold the blood of others at 
a low rate have but made the market for their own ene- 
mies, to buy of theirs at the same price. 
Raleigh, Hfst. World, Pref., p. 18. 
18. To bring to completion; complete; fill the 
complement or tale of: as, another will ikr 
ten; this makr* out the whole order. 
This bottle make* an angel. Shak. , 1 Hen. IV., IT. 2. 6. 
19f. To contribute. 
Memory . . . maketh most to a sound judgement and 
perfect worldly wisdomv. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 31. 
20. To put forth ; give out; deliver: as, tomato 
a speech. 
She stood to her defence and made shot for shot 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 6. 
21. To do; be about; be occupied or busied 
with: with i/'litit. [Archaic.] 
Whence art thon, and what doost thou here now make? 
Spenser, F. Q.. VII. vi. 25. 
3587 
She was In his company at Page's house, and what they 
made there I know not Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 244. 
-Night's bird, quoth he, what inak'st thou In this place, 
To view my wretched miserable case? 
Drayton, The Owl. 
(iive mee leave to inquire of your Majesty what you 
makr in fields of blood, when you should be amidst your 
Parliament of peace. X. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 58. 
22. To inform ; apprise ; prepare by previous 
instruction; forewarn; "coach"; train. 
Come, let's before, and make the justice captain. 
B. Jonson, Every Man In his Humour, iv. 9. 
23. To think ; judge : with of. 
I was only wondering what our people would make of 
her; they have never seen a white servant In their lives. 
Harper's Mag., LXXV1I1. 242. 
To make a back, a bed, a board, abode, a cast, a 
circuit, see the nouns. To make account*, to make 
account of. See account. To make a clean breast of. 
See breast. To make a clean sweep, see nceep. To 
make a current or circuit, in elect., to complete the 
electric circuit, and so allow the current to now. To 
make a difference, a dividend, a double, a face. See 
the nouns To make a figure, to be conspicuous; cut a 
figure. See cut. 
They make a figure In dress and equipage. 
Sieift, Gulliver s Travels, ii. 3. 
To make a flash, a fool of. a hand*, a hare of, a 
hash of, a leg, a lip. See the nouns. To make all 
split*, to behave violently or rantingly. [Slang. ) 
I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make 
all split. Shak., M. M. D., I. 2. 82. 
Two roaring boys of Borne, that made all split. 
Beau, and Ft., Scornful Lady, ii. 3. 
To make a long arm, to stretch out the arm in reach- 
ing for anything, as at table. [Colloq.] To make a 
magnet. Same as to make the magnet. To make a 
march, a meal, a mock of. see the nouns. To make 
a matter of conscience. See conscience. To make 
amends, to render compensation or satisfaction. To 
make a mouth. See mouth. To make an end. See 
end. To make an honest woman of. see honest. 
To make a passage, a point of, a run, a scene, a 
show, a stand. See the nouns. To make avauntt. 
See acaunf-<. To make a Virginia fence, to walk like 
a drunken man ; stagger in a zigzag course. Lowell, Big- 
low Papers, 2d ser., Int. [U. S.; rare.] To make avl- 
zandum. See arizatidum. To make away* to put 
out of the way ; kill ; destroy. 
Pray Ood he be not made away. 
B. Jonton, Alchemist, v. 1. 
TO make away with, to squander ; dissipate recklessly 
destroy. To make believe, to pretend; act as if : as, he 
was only making believe. 
Sometimes the Queen would make, believe 
To heed him nought 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 112. 
To make boot of, capital of, cheer*, choice of. See 
the nouns. To make both ends meet. See end. To 
make common cause with. See cause. To make 
connections. See connection. To make conscience. 
See conscience. To make danger*, to attempt or try ; 
make experiment [A Latintsm.) 
If there be e'er a private corner as you go, sir, 
A foolish lobby out o' the way, make danger; 
Try what they are, try. 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject, Hi. 4. 
To make danger of*. See danger. TO make dates 
See datei. To make dole (or dool)t, to mourn. To 
make ducks and drakes. See due* 1 -'. To make earth, 
in teleg., to put the line In contact with the earth. When 
there is a leakage of current from the line to earth it Is said 
to make earth. To make even. See even*. To make 
fast. See fasti. To make feast*. Seefeast. Tomake 
flsh, to cure or dry fish. [Cant ] To make foul water 
See /oJi. To make free with. See free. To make 
from*, to take from ; alienate. 
Make from olde reliques reverence ; 
From publlque shews magnificence. 
Puttenham, Partheniades, xiil. 
To make fun of, to ridicule TO make game of. See 
game*. To make good. See good. To make good 
cheer*, to make good play, to make haste, to make 
hay, to make head against. Sec the nouns. To make 
good or bad weather (noirf.), to behave (well or 111) in a 
gale: said of a ship. Tomake bail weather Ii to roll or Melt 
violently. 
I found, for one thing, that whalers always made better 
weather than merchantmen, when they were in company. 
Science, VII. 167. 
To make head against, to oppose successfully. To 
make headway, to move forward; forge ahead- gain 
progress. To make hence*, to cause to depart; expel 
or send away. 
It is as dangerous to make them hetit., 
If nothing but their birth be their offence. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, U. 2. 
To make interest. See interest. To make it one's 
business. Seefriurinfux. To make known. Seetnomi. 
To make light of. See lights. To make little of. 
(o) To consider as of little or no value; treat as insignifi- 
cant. (6) To fail to understand fully. See t make nothing 
of. To make love to. See im-ei.To make margin 
Sec margin. To make matter*, to matter ; import. 
What makes matter, say they, if a bird sing nuke or crow 
cross? H,,lni,'l, tr. ..f Livy, p. 247. 
To make means*. See mean*. To make mock at. See 
nun*!. To make money, see money. To make much 
(more, a great deal, and the like) of. () To consider 
as of great value, or as giving great pleasure ; treat with 
special favor, (b) See to make nothina of. To make no 
bones. See bonei. To make no doubt, to have no 
make 
doubt ; be confident. To make no force*. See/orcei. 
To make no matter, to have no weight or jmpoi i 
make no difference : said of tilings. To make nothing 
for, t'> have 11" etteet ill a-i-Miui:. -N|I]II tint;, i>r eonHrtn- 
ing: as, mer- r,,r an argument. 
TO make nothing lor little) Of. (a) To regard or think 
of as nothing (or little) : as, she make* nothing nf walking 
ten miles. (0) To be unable to understand ; obtain no tat 
iifactory result from : as, I can make nothing of him. (e) 
To treat as of no (or little) value. 
I am astonished that those who have appeared against 
this paper have made to very little o/ it. Addi*it. 
To make oath, to swear (to a statement) in a form and 
manner prescribed by law. To make Off*, get rid of; 
dispose of. 
He could not subsist here, and thereupon made of his 
estate, and with his family, and 100U in his purse, he re 
turned for England. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 15. 
Tomakeoneajape*. See jape. To make one's beard*. 
See urarti. - To make one's honors. See honor. To 
make one's lucky. See lucky. To make one's man- 
ners. See wanner. To make one's mark. Seemarti. 
To make one's market, (a) To make sale of one's 
cargo or stock In trade, (fc) To dispose of one's eelf in 
marriage ; make a marriage or an engagement to marry. 
To make one's self at home, sec hmne. TO make 
one's self scarce. See scarce. To make one's way. 
(a) To proceed : as, to make one's icay homeward. (b) To 
succeed ; be successful : as, to makt one's way In the world. 
To make out. (a) To learn by lalwr or effort ; discover ; 
obtain a clear understanding of; discern; decipher: as, I 
cannot make out the meaning of this passage ; I tried in 
vain to make the girl out. (b) To effect hardly or with 
difficulty; barely succeed in: with an Infinitive clause for 
object : as. I just made out to reach the place In time, (c) To 
prove ; evince ; cause to appear or be esteemed ; establish 
by evidence or argument : as, to make out one's case : you 
would make him out to be a fool, (d) To find or supply to 
the full : as, he was not able to make out the money, or the 
whole sum. (e) To draw up; prepare: as, to make out a 
bill ; to make out an application. TO make over. () To 
remake ; reconstruct, either in the same or in a different 
form : as, to make over an old gown, (b) To transfer the 
title of; convey; alienate : as, he made oner his estate in 
trust or in fee. To make place, remembrance, rev- 
erence*. See the nouns To make ready. See ready. 
To make sail, shift, etc. See the nouns. To make 
the best of. See best. To make the doors*, to make 
fast or bar the doors : close the entrance. 
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the 
casement Shak., As you Like It, iv. 1. 162. 
To make the feathers orfurfly. see fly!. To make 
the land. Sec land). To make the magnet, in elec- 
tromagnetism, to close the electric circuit which includes 
the magnetizing coil of the magnet, or otherwise to send 
current through that circuit. To unmake the magnet is 
to open the circuit or stop the current. To make the 
most Of, to use to the best advantage ; use to the utter- 
most. 
If this be treason, make the mnst of it. 
Patrick Henry, Speech (1766). 
To make things hum. see Auii. To make un- 
ready*. See unready. -To make up. (a) To collect 
into one ; form by bringing together the constituent parts 
of : as, to make up a bundle. (6) To form or fashion by 
fitting and uniting the several parts of : as, to make up 
n garment, (e) To compose from elements or ingredients ; 
form ; prepare : as, all bodies are made up of atoms ; to 
make up a prescription, (d) To fabricate artfully; com- 
pose fictitiously; produce from imagination: as. he makes 
ft up as he goes along ; to make up a story out of the whole 
cloth (that is, without any foundation), (e) To complete : 
as. to make up a given sum. (f) To supplement ; supply 
what is wanting to. 
My dwarf shall dance, 
My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic. 
B. Jonion, Volpone, ill. 6. 
<:/> To assume a particular form of features : as, to male 
up a face. Hence, to make up a lip is to pout. (A) To com- 
pensate : make good : as, to make up a loss, (i) To set- 
tle: adjust or arrange for settlement: an, to make tip 
account*, (j) To determine; bring to a definite conclu- 
sion : as, to make up one's mind, (t) To reckon. 
And they shall be mine, salth the Lord of hosts, in that 
day when I makr up my jewels. Mai. 111. 17. 
(1) To make good : as, to make up a loss or deficiency, (m) 
"o compose ; harmonize ; adjust : as, to make up a differ- 
$ 
ence or a quarrel, (n) To repair : as,' to make up a hedge 
Eiek. iiii. 5. (o*) To prepare ; fortify ; close. 
We must make up onr ears 'gainst these assaults 
Of charming tongues. B. Jonson, Sejanus, i. 2. 
To make up leeway. See leeway. To make up one's 
mind, to decide ; come to a decision. 
The engineers made up their minds that we were in the 
trade winds again, . . . and that we should not want the 
engines for some days. 
Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xTiil. 
With a cheerful smile, as one whose mind 
Is all made up. Tennyson, Queen Mary, iv. :i. 
To make up one's mouth for, to expect with desire : 
have an appetite for : as. his mnufA was made up for a 
chicken salad. [Colloq. 1 To make war, to bring about 
an armed contest ; initiate or levy war ; make an attack 
in force : as, to make tear upon or against a neighboring 
country. 
If It [a city] . . . will make war against thee, then thon 
shalt besiege it Dent. xx. !_'. 
To make water, (a) A'aut. , to leak ; take in water by a 
leak. (6) To urinate. To make way. (o) To make pro- 
gress; advance. (6) To open a passage; clear the way. 
To make words, to multiply words ; engage in wordy 
discussion or dispute. 
II. iiitrnn.1. 1. To do; act; be active: take 
;\ I'ourse or line of action: now only in phrases 
