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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.
Make
(Make) v. i.
1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; — often in the phrase to
meddle or make. [Obs.]
A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make. Shak.
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