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MAKE. 
or ingredients.—A pint of fait of tartar, expofed unto a 
moilt air, will make more liquor than the former meafure 
will contain. Brown. 
The heav’n, the air, the earth, and boundlefs fea, 
Make but one temple for the deity. Waller. 
To form by art what is not natural: 
There lavilh nature, in her belt attire, 
Pours forth fweet odours, and alluring fights; 
And art, with her contending, doth afpire 
T’ excel the natural with made delights. Sperfer. 
To produce or effefl as the agent.—Thou haft fet figns 
and wonders in the land of Egypt, and haft made thee a 
name. Jer. xxxii. 20. 
Egypt, mad with fuperftition grown. 
Makes gods of monfters. Tate's Juvenal. 
To produce as a caufe.—The child taught to believe any 
occurrence to be a good or evil omen, or any day of the 
week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the foundnefs 
of his underftanding. Watts. —To do; to perform; to 
praflife ; to ufe in action.—He that will make a good ufe 
of any part of his life, muft allow a large portion of it to 
recreation. Locke. 
What hope, O Pantheus! whither can we run? 
Where make a ftand ? and what may yet be done? Dryden. 
To caufe to have any quality.—In refpett of actions within 
the reach of fuch a power in him, a man feems as free as 
it is poflible for freedom to moke him. Locke. 
I bred you up to arms, rais’d you to power. 
Permitted you to fight for this ufurper ; 
AH to make fure the vengeance of this day, 
Which even this day has ruin’d. Dryden. 
To bring into any ftate or condition.—The Lacedemo¬ 
nians trained up their children to hate drunkennefs, by 
bringing a drunken man into their company, and (hewing 
them what a bead he made of himfelf. Watts. —To form ; 
to fettle ; to eftablifh : 
Tiiofe who are wife in courts 
Make friendftups with the minifters of ftate. 
Nor feek the ruins of a wretched exile. Rowe. 
To hold ; to keep.—Deep in a cave the fybil makes 
abode. Dryden. —To fecure from diftrefs; to eftablifh in 
riches or happinefs.—He hath given her this monumental 
ring, and thinks himfelf made in the unchafte compofi- 
tion. Shakefpeare. 
Each element his dread command obeys, 
Who makes or ruins with a fmile or frown, 
Who as by one he did our nation raife. 
So now he with another pulls us down. Dryden. 
To fuffer; to incur.—He accufeth Neptune unjuftly, who 
makes (hipwreck a fecond time. Bacon. 
The lofs was private that I made ; 
’Twas but myfeif I loft; I loft no legions. Dryden. 
To commit.—I wiil neither plead my age nor ficknefs in 
excufe of the faults which I have made. Dryden. —To com¬ 
pel; to force; to cpnftrain.—That the foul in a fleeping 
man fnould be this moment bufy a-thinking, and the next 
moment in a waking man not remember thofe thoughts, 
would need fome better proof than bare affertion to make 
it be believed. Locke. —To do : in this fenfe it is ufed only 
in interrogation.—Gomez, what mak'Jl thou here with a 
whole brotherhood of city-bailiffs? Dryden's Spanijh Fryar. 
He may afk this civil queftion : Friend ! 
What doft thou make a-fhipboard ? to what end ? Dryden. 
To raife as profit from any thing.—He’s in for a commo¬ 
dity of brown pepper, of which he made five marks ready 
money. Shakefpeare. —To reach ; to tend to; to arrive at: 
a kjad of fea-term.—Acofta recordeth, they that fail in the 
middle can. mpdie np Jar.d of either fide. Broum's Vulg. Errors. 
i re made the port already, 
And laugh fecurely at the lazy ftorm. Dryden. 
To gain.—The wind came about, and fettled in the weft 
for many days, fo as we could make little or no way. Bacon. 
I have made way 
To fome Philiftine lords, with whom to treat. Milton. 
To force; to gain by force.—The ftone wall which di¬ 
vides China from Tartary is reckoned nine hundred 
miles long, running over rocks, and making way for rivers 
through mighty arches. Temple. 
Rugged rocks are interpos’d in vain ; 
He makes his way o’er mountains, and contemns 
Unruly torrents and unforded ftreams. Dryden. 
To exhibit.—When thou makejl a dinner, call not thy 
friends, but the poor. Luke, xiv. 12.—To pay ; to give._ 
He (hall make amends for the harm that he hatlf done. 
Leviticus.— To put; to place.—You muft make a great dif¬ 
ference between Hercules’s labours by land, and Jafon’s 
voyage by fea for the golden fleece. Bacon.— To turn to 
fome ufe: 
Whate’er they catch, 
Their fury makes an inftrument of war. Dryden. 
To incline to; to difpofe to.—It is not requifite they 
fliould deftroy our reafon, that is, to make us rely on the 
ftrength of nature, when flie is leaft able to relieve us. 
Brown. —To effedl as an argument.—You conceive you 
have no more to do than, having found the principal 
word in a concordance, introduce as much of the verfe as 
will ferve your turn, though in reality it makes nothin^ 
for you. Swift.— To reprefent; to fhow.—He is not that 
goofe and afs that Valla would make him. Baker. _To 
conftitute.—Our defires carry the mind out to abfent 
good, according to the neceflity which we think there is 
of it, to the making or encreafe of our happinefs. Locke.— 
To amount to.—Whatfoever they were, it maketh no mat¬ 
ter to me: God accepteth no man’s perfon. Gal. ii. 16._ 
To mould; to form.—Lye not ereft but hollow, which 
is in the making of the bed ; or with the legs gathered up, 
which is the more wholefome. Bacon. ! ' 
Some undeferved fault 
I’ll find about the making of the bed. Shakefpeare. 
To Make away. To kill ; to deftroy.—What multitudes 
of infants have been made away by thofe who brought 
them into the world ! Addifon. 
He may have a likely guefs, 
How thefe were they that made away his brother. Shahefp. 
To transfer: 
Debtors, 
When they never mean to pay. 
To fome friend make all away. Waller. 
To Make account. To reckon ; to believe.—They made 
no account but that the navy fhould be abfolutely matter 
of the feas. Bacon's War with Spain. 
To Make account tf. To efteem ; to regard. 
To Make free with. To treat without ceremony.—The 
fame who have made free with the greateft names in church 
and ftate, and expofed to the world the private misfor¬ 
tunes of families. Dunciad. 
To Make good. To maintain ; to defend ; to juftify._ 
The grand malter, guarded with a company of moft va¬ 
liant knights, drove them out again by force, and made 
good the place. Knolles. —When he comes to make good his 
confident undertaking, he is fain to fay things that acuee 
very little with one another. Boyle.—To fulfil ■ to°ac- 
complifh.—This letter doth make good the friar’s words. 
Shakefpeare. 
To Make light of. To confider as of no confequence.— 
They made light ofn, and went their ways. Mattk. xxii. 
To Make love. To court; to play the gallant.— How 
happy each of the fexes would be, if there was a window iri 
the bread of every one that makes or receives love. Addifon. 
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