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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) 1.7 (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"; "it was already in the
making" [syn: {devising}, {fashioning}]


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