make 
formed with particles, and in the archaic phrase 
to meddle or make. 
His fearfull Rider makes 
Like som vnskilfull Lad that ynder-takes 
To holde som ships helm, while the head-long Tyde 
Carries away that Vessel! and her Guide. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Handy-Crafts. 
2. To cause one's self to be or appear; mani- 
fest the state or condition of being; act in a 
certain manner, as indicated by a succeeding 
adjective: as, he made bold to ask a favor; to 
make merry over another's mishap. 3. To have 
effect; contribute; tend; be of advantage: fol- 
lowed by for, formerly sometimes by to. 
Let us therefore follow after the things which makefrjr 
peace. Rom. xiv. 19. 
A thing may make to ray present purpose. Boyle. 
4. To make way; proceed: move; direct one's 
course: with various words expressing direc- 
tion : as, he made toward home ; he made after 
the boy as fast as he could. 
I would have you make hither with an appetite. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 
Is 't not possible 
To make in to the land? 'tis here before us. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, i. 1. 
Thou wishest I should make to Shoar; 
Yet stm put'st in thy thwarting Oar. 
5. To move upward or inward; flow up or to- 
ward the land; rise: said of the tide and of 
water in a ship, etc. : as, the tide makes fast; 
water was making in the hold- 6f. To com- 
pose ; especially, to compose poetry. Compare 
maker, 2. 
Ye lovers, that kan make of sentement, 
In this case oghte ye be diligent 
To f orthren me somewhat in my labour. 
Chaucer, Good Women, I. 69. 
The God of shepheards, Tityrus, is dead, 
Who taught me homely, as I can, to make. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., June. 
To make after, to follow ; pursue; endeavor to overtake 
or catch. To make against, to oppose ; be adverse to: 
as, this argument makes against his cause. 
Considerations infinite 
Do make against it. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 1. 103. 
Time and temporising, which, whilst his practices were 
covert, made for him [Perkin Warbeck], did now, when 
they were discovered, rather make against him. 
Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. 
Though they ever speak on his side, yet their words still 
make against him. Bacon, Ess. of a King, p. 210. 
To make and break, in elect., to close and open a cir- 
cuit ; set up and stop a current To make aa If or 
though, to act as if ; appear ; make believe ; feign that. 
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before 
them, and fled. Josh. viii. 16. 
And they drew nigh unto the village whither they went; 
and He made as though he would have gone further. 
Luke xxiv. 28. 
To make at, to approach as if to attack ; make a hostile 
movement against. 
Then did Christian draw, for he saw that it was time to 
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a reconciliation ; settle differences ; become friends again : 
as, kiss and make up. 
To any overtures of reconciliation he [Bowles] made 
prompt and winning response. "The pleasantest man to 
make up with that 1 ever knew," said a life-long acquaint- 
ance. G. S. Sferriam, S. Bowles, I. 215. 
(6) To dress, eto., as an actor, for a particular part ; partic- 
ularly, to paint and disguise the face ; give a different ap- 
pearance to one's self for any purpose or occasion. To 
make up for, to compensate; replace; supply by an 
equivalent. 
Have you got a supply of friends to make up for those 
who are gone? Swift, To Pope. 
To make up to. (a) To approach ; draw near to ; ap- 
proach and join ; come into company with. 
He espied two men come tumbling over the wall, on the 
left hand of the narrow way ; and they made up apace to 
him. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 111. 
Make up to Clifton ; 111 to Sir Nicholas Gawsey. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. 68. 
(i>) To endeavor to be on friendly or affectionate terms 
with ; especially, to court [Colloq.] 
Young Bullock, . . . who had been making up to Miss 
Maria the last two seasons. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xii. 
To make witht, to act or cooperate with ; concur or 
agree with. 
Antiquity, custom, and consent, in the church of God, 
making with that which law doth establish, are themselves 
most sufficient reasons to uphold the same. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
_ To meddle or make. See meddle. 
Prior, Alma, iii. make 1 (mak), n. [< ME. make; < make 1 , v.'] 1. 
Form; shape; constitution and arrangement 
of parts ; structure ; style of making or make- 
up: as, a man of slender make; the make of a 
coat. 
Anone he lette two cofres make, 
Of one semblance, of one make. 
Gamer, Conf. Aniant., v. 
The Italians . . . mask some characters, and endeavour 
to preserve the peculiar humour by the make of the mask. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 1. 
Each one sat ... 
Oft In mid-banquet measuring with his eyes 
His neighbour's make and might 
Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
2. Mental constitution or character; intellec- 
tual make-up ; individual nature or quality. 
Jack, therefore, being of a plodding make, shall be a 
citizen. Steele, Tatler, No. 30. 
It were obvious and unmixed deviltry simply to con- 
demn this natural make of mine, or turn it over to ruth- 
less punishment H. James, Subs, and Shad., p. 19. 
3. That which is made ; manufacture; produc- 
tion : as, garments of domestic make. 
It is ... the product of several large manufacturing 
establishments, who usually claim to have some peculiar- 
ity of process or composition in their particular makes. 
Buck's Handbook of ifed. Science!, IV. 638. 
4. Quantity made ; yield. 
These stoves have been extensively adopted, and in 
every case greatly increase the make from a furnace. 
Ure, Diet, IV. 463. 
5. The act of making or gaining ; search or ef- 
fort for profit or advantage : in the slang phrase 
on the make.Q. In elect., close of the electric 
circuit, or passage of the electric current through 
the circuit. 
bestir him ; and Apollyon as fast made at him, throwing make 2 t (mak), n. 
They may not by their Law drinke Wine ; they compound 
a drinke of dry raisous steeped in water and other mix- 
tures ; yea, and secretly will make bolde urith the former. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 688. 
To make dainty*. See dainty. To make for. (a) To 
be for the advantage of ; favor, or operate in favor of. 
Not that I neglect those things that make for the dig- 
nity of the commonwealth. B. Jonson, Epicrene, v. 1. 
The not ourselves which is in us and all around us be- 
came to them adorable eminently and altogether as apower 
which makes for righteousness. 
ill. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, i. 
(b) To direct one's steps or course to ; proceed toward, (c) 
To approach hostilely; make at. [Colloq.] To make 
merry. See merry. To make nice oft, to be scrupu- 
lous about ; be particular in regard to ; be fastidious or 
finical as to. 
And he that stands upon a slippery place 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 
Shak.,K. John, iii. 4. 138. 
To make Off, to depart suddenly ; run away ; bolt. 
My sister took this occasion to make off. 
mage, a companion, fellow, mate; also, in a 
variant form, E. mate, < ME. mate, prob. not a 
native E. change of the orig. make, but due to 
MD. maet, D. moat, prob. < OFries. "mate; of. 
the verb mafia for makia, make ; cf . also AS. 
gcmascca (not "mascca), a companion, E. match 1 ; 
with orig. collective prefix ge-, < macian, make, 
orig. 'fit together' (cf. gadling 1 , a companion, 
of similar literal sense): seemafce 1 ,^.] A com- 
panion; a mate; a consort; a match. 
Ne noon so grey a goos gooth in the lake, 
As, seistow, wol been withoute make. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 270. 
How long 
Hath the poor turtle gone to school, weenest thou, 
To learn to mourn her lost make? 
L. Bryskett (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 274). 
This bright virgin, and her happy make. 
B. Jonson, Masque of Hymen. 
make 3 (mak), M. [Origin not clear.] An instru- 
ment of husbandry, formed with a crooked piece 
. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 85. of iron and a long handle, used for rooting up 
To make off with, to run away with; carry off. To Peas. Halliicell. [Prov. Eng.] 
make out. (a) To get along ; come out ; succeed : as, make 4 , n. See mailfi 
^ *" to ""* "^ <*>' makebate (rnak'bat), n. [< make 1 , r., + obj. 
bate*.} 1. One who excites contentions and 
quarrels. 
I never was a make-bate, or a knave. 
Heyiuood, Woman Killed with Kindness. 
Love in her passions, like a right make-bate, whispered 
to both sides arguments of quarrels. 
(c) To stretch or extend. 
From the north end ... [of old Cairo] the foot of the 
hill makes met to the river. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 25. 
To make sure, to consider as certain ; feel confident : as, 
I made mre that he would do so, but am disappointed. 
To make sure of, to secure full knowledge or possession 
of ; obtain with certainty or absolutely : as, to make mre 
of the facts, or of the game. To make up. (a) To effect 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
2. A plant, Jasminum fruticans. 
makeshift 
make-believe (mak'be-lev"), n. and f(. [< make 1 , 
v., + inf. believe.'] I. '. Pretense; sham; false 
or fanciful representation. 
Make-believes 
For Edith and himself. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
II. a. Unreal; sham; pretended. 
They can live other lives than their real ones, make-be- 
lieve lives, while yet they remain conscious all the while 
that they are making believe. 
Ruskin, Lectures on Art (1872), p. 166. 
raakedt. An obsolete past participle of make 1 . 
Chaucer. 
makegame (mak'gam), n. [< make 1 , v., + obj. 
game 1 .} A laughing-stock; a butt for jest and 
sport. [Rare.] 
I was treated as ... a flouting-stock and a make-game. 
Godwin, Mandeville, I. 263. (Dames.) 
make-hawk (mak'hak), n. I'D. falconry. See 
hawk 1 . Mncyc. Brit. 
make-kingt (mak'king), n. [< make 1 , v. t., + 
king 1 .} A king-maker. Putter, Worthies, Ox- 
ford. 
makelesst (mak'les), a. [< ME. makeles (= Sw. 
makalds = Dan. magelos); < make% + -less. 
Cf. matchless.} 1. Matchless; peerless; un- 
equaled. 
In beautie first so stood she makeles, 
Her goodly looking gladed all the prees. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 
2. Without a mate ; widowed. 
The world will wail thee, like a makelese wife. 
Shak., Sonnets, ix. 
makepeace (mak'pes), . [< make 1 , v., + obj. 
peace.} A peacemaker; one who reconciles 
persons at variance ; a composer of strife; an 
adjuster of differences. [Rare.] 
To be a make-peace shall become my age. 
Shak., Rich. II., i. L 160. 
maker (ma'ker), . [< ME. maker, makyere, < 
AS. *macere (= D. MLG. maker = OHG. ma- 
cliare, MHG. maclier, G. macher, mcicher = Sw. 
makare = Dan. mager in comp.), < maciait, 
make : see make 1 . } 1 . One who makes, creates, 
shapes, forms, or molds; specifically (with a 
capital letter), the Creator. 
I am gracyus and grete, God withoutyn begynnyng, 
I am maker vnmade, all mighte es in me. 
York Plays, p. 1. 
Laws for the Church are not made as they should be, 
unless the makers follow such direction as they ought to 
be guided by. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 9. 
- Woe unto him that striveth with bin Maker. Isa.xlv.il. 
2. One who composes verses; a poet. [Obso- 
lete or archaic.] 
The Greekes called him a Poet> which name hath, as the 
most excellent, gone through other languages. It com- 
meth of this word Poiein, which is, to make : wherein I 
know not, whether by lucke or wise-dome, wee Englishmen 
haue mette with the Greekes, in calling him a maker. 
Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
Caedmon has not been left without followers, like the 
older and later makers whose names we know not. 
Freeman, Norman Conquest, v. 396. 
3. The person who makes the promise in 
a promissory note by affixing his signature 
thereto. 
make-ready (ra&k'reA"i), n. In printing, the 
foundation-sheet on which are fixed the over- 
lays requisite for the proper printing of a par- 
ticular form of type. 
It is a safe rule to keep the make -ready of every type job 
until the Job has been distributed. 
Set. Amer., N. S., LVI. 405. 
makerellt, n. A Middle English form of mack- 
erel 1 . 
maker-up (ma'ker -up'), n. In printing, the 
workman who arranges composed types in 
pages or columns of proper size. 
makeshift (mak'shift), n. and a. [< make 1 , v., 
+ obj. shift.} I. . If. A shifty person ; one 
given to shifts or expedients; a mischievous 
fellow. 
And not longe after came thither a make shifte, with 
two men wayghting on hym, as very rakehelles as him 
selfe, bragging that he was a profound phisicien. 
J. Halle, An Historian Expostulation (ed. 1844), p. 19. 
2. That with which one makes shift; an expe- 
dient adopted to serve a present need or turn ; 
a temporary substitute. 
" Now, friend," said Hawk-eye, addressing David. "... 
you are but little accustomed to the uiakexhift*i<f the wil- 
derness." J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xxvi. 
II. . Of the nature of a temporary expedi- 
ent. 
With the girls so troublesome, and Jocosa so dreadfully 
wooden and ugly, and everything make-shift about us, . . . 
what was the use of my being anything ? 
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, iii 
