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To Make merry. To feaft ; to partake of an entertain¬ 
ment.—A gentleman and his wife will ride to make merry 
with his neighbour, and after a day thole two go to a 
third ; in which progrefs they encreafe like fnowbails, till 
through their burthenfome weight they break. Carew's 
Survey of Cornwall. 
To Make muck of. To cherilh ; to fofter.—It is good 
discretion not to make too much of any man at the firft. Ba¬ 
con's EJfays — The ealy and the lazy make much of the gout; 
and yet, making uiuch of themfelves too, they take care to 
carry it prefently to bed, and keep it warm. Temple. 
The bird is dead 
That we have made fo much on / Shakefpeare's Cymbeline. 
To Make of. To produce from; to effeft.—I am afto- 
niflied, that thofe who hive appeared againjt this paper 
have made fo very little -of it. Addifon, To c .nfider; to 
account; to elfeein.— Makes ice no more of me than o. a 
have ? Dry den.—To cherilh j to fofter. Not vfed.—X aycus 
was wonderfully beloved, and made of, by^t.is Tuikiffi 
merchants, whofe language he had learned. Knolles. II hat 
to make of, is, how to underhand.—That they Ihould have 
knowledge of the languages and affairs of thofe that lie at 
fuch a diftance from them, was a thing we could not tell 
what to make of. Bacon. —I defired he would let me fee his 
book : he did fo, finding : I could not make any thing of 
it. Tatler. ' » 
To Make over. To fettle in the hands of truftees : 
The wife betimes make over their eftates. 
Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trull, 
And give me feizure of the mighty wealth. Dryden. 
To transfer.—Age and youth cannot be made over: nothing 
but time can take away years, or give them. Collier. 
To Make out. To clear j to explain ; to clear to one’s 
f e lf._Antiquaries make out the molt ancient medals from 
a letter with great difficulty to be difcerned. Felton * 
Make out the reft. I am diforder’d fo, 
I know not farther what to fay or do. Dryden. 
To prove ; to evince.—There is no truth which a man 
may more evidently make out to himfelf, than-the exiftence 
of a God. Locke.— Scaliger hath made out, that the hiftory 
of Troy was no more the invention of Homer than of 
Virgil. Dryden. 
To Make fure of. To confider as certain.—They made 
as fure of health and life, as if both of them were at their 
difpofal.—To fecure to one’s poffeffion : 
But, whether marriage bring joy or forrow. 
Make fure of this day, and hang to-morrow. Dryden. 
To Make up. To get together.—How will the farmer 
be able to make up his rent at quarter-day? Locke.— To 
reconcile; to compofe.—I knew when feven jultices could 
not make up a quarrel. Shakefpeare. —To repair.—I fought 
for a man among them that Ihould make up the hedge, 
and Hand in the gap before me for the land. Ezekiel. — 
To compofe, as ingredients.—Vines, figs, oranges, al¬ 
monds, olives, myrtles, and fields of corn, make up the 
moft delightful little landlkip. Addifon. 
Old mould’ring urns, racks, daggers, and diftrefs, 
Make up the frightful horror of the place. Garth. 
To ffiape.—A catapotium is a medicine fwallowed folid, 
and moft commonly made up in pills. Arbuthnot on Coins.— 
To fupply; to make lefs deficient.—Whatsoever, to make 
up the doctrine of man’s falvation, is added as in fupply 
of the feripture’s infufficiency, we reject it. Hooker. 
Thus think the crowd, who, eager to engage. 
Take quickly fire, and kindle into rage j 
Who ne’er confider, but without a paufe 
Make up in paffion what they want in caufe. Dryden. 
To compenfate ; to balance.—There mult needs be ano¬ 
ther ftate to make up the inequalities of this, and to falve 
all irregular appearances. Atterbury, 
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• Thus wifely ffie makes up her time, 
Mif-fpent when youth was in its prime. Granville f 
To fettle ; to adjuft.—He was to make up his accounts with 
his lord, and by an ealy undifcoverable cheat he could 
provide againft the impending diftrefs. Rogers's Sermons. 
Though all at once cannot 
See what I do deliver out to each, 
Yet I can make my audit up, that all 
From me do back receive the fipur of all, 
And leave me but the bran. Shakefpeare's Coriolanus. 
To accompliffi ; to conclude ; to complete.—This life is 
a feene of vanity, that foon pafles away, and affords no 
folid fatisfaftion but in the confcioufnefs of doing well, 
and in the hopes of another life: this is what I can fay 
upon experience, and what you will find to be true when 
you coine to make up the account. Locke. 
This match made up. 
Her prefence would have interrupted much. Shakefpeare . 
This is one of the words fo frequently occurring, and 
ufed with fo much latitude, that its whole extent is not 
ealily comprehended, nor are its attenuated and fugitive 
meanings eafily caught and reftrained. The original fenfe, 
including either produBion or formation, may be traced 
through all the varieties of application. Johnfon. 
To Make, v. n. To tend ; to travel; to go any way.— 
The Moors, terrified with the hideous cry of the foldiers 
making towards land, were eafily beaten from the fliore. 
Knolles. —When they fet out from mount Sinai, they made 
northward unto Riffimah. Brown’s Vulgar Errours. —A man 
of a difturbed brain, feeing in the ftreet one of thole lads 
that ufed to vex him, ftepped into a cutler’s (hop, and, 
feizing on a naked fword, made after t*he boy. Locke. — 
Seeing a country gentleman trotting before me, with a 
fpaniel by his horfe’s fide, I made up to him. Addifon. — 
The earl of Lincoln refolved to make on where the king 
was, to give him battle; and marched towards Newark. 
Bacon. —Warily provide, that, while we make forth to that 
which is better, we meet not with that which is worf'e. 
Bacon's EJfays. 
Some fpeedy way for pafiage mull be found ; 
Make to the city by the poftern gate. Dryden. 
Too late young Turnus the delufion found 
Far on the fea, (till making from the ground. Dryden. 
A monftrous boar ruffi’d forth; his baleful eyes 
Shot glaring fire, and his ftiff-pointed briftles 
Rofe high upon his back; at me he made, 
Whetting his tufks. Smith's Phadra and Hippolitus. 
I think that one of them is hereabouts, 
And cannot make away. Shakefpeare's Othello. 
To contribute ; to have effeft.—Whatfoever makes nothing 
to your fubjeft, and is improper to it, admit not into your 
work. Dryden. —To operate ; to aft as a proof or argu¬ 
ment, or caufe.—Let us follow after things which make 
for peace. Romans. —Where neither the evidence of any 
law divine, nor the ftrength of any invincible argument, 
otherwile found out by the light of reafon, nor any notable 
public inconvenience doth make againit that which our own 
laws ecclefiaftical have inltituted tor the ordering of thefe 
affairs; the very authority of the church itfelf fufficeth. 
Hooker. —To ffiow ; to appear; to carry appearance.—Joffiua 
and all If'rael made as if they were beaten before them, and 
fled. Jofh. viii. 15.—-To compofe verfes : £a Grecifm.] 
Full many maidens often did him woo 
Them to vouchfafe emongft his rimes to name. 
Or make for them, as he was wont to do 
For her that did his heart with love inflame. Spenf Afrop . 
Befides her peerlefs fkill in making well. 
And all the ornaments of wond’rous wit 
Such as all womankind did far excel. Spenf. Colin Clout. 
To Make away with. To deftroy.—The women of Greece 
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