To make away (with oneself), verb. phr. (colloquial).—See quot. 1836.
1633. Spenser, Ireland [Ency. Dict.]. Clarence ... soon after, by
sinister means, was clean made away.
1836. C. Dickens, Pickwick Papers, p. 65 (ed. 1857). ‘Perhaps he
may hang himself.’ ‘Very good,’ rejoined Mr. Simmery, pulling out
the gold pencil-case again. ‘I’ve no objection to take you that
way. Say—makes away with himself.’ ‘Kills himself in fact’ said
Wilkins Flasher Esquire.
To make dainty, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To scruple.
To make nice, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—To scruple or object.
To make up, verb. phr. (theatrical and common).—1. To dress: as an
actor for a part. See Make-up.
1602. Decker, Satiro-mastix in Works (1873), i. 253. Wat Terrill,
th’art ill suited, ill made vp, In Sable collours, like a night
piece dyed, Conn’st thou the Prologue of a Maske in blacke.
1633. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 3. I would have him The bravest,
richest, and the properest man A tailor could make up; or all the
poets, With the perfumers.
1655. Massinger, Very Woman, i. 1. Pedro. Morrow, sister! Do I not
come unseasonably? Alm. Why, good brother? Pedro. Because you are
not yet fully made up, Nor fit for visitation.
1844. Puck, p. 30. Feeling convinced that lovers were my line I
once tried Romeo, but was hissed; since then My young ambition,
sadly I resign,—My mind and face made up for first old men.
1869. Mrs. H. Wood, Roland Yorke, xxv. That lady ... had absolute
need of artistic aid in the matter of making-up; face and shape and
hair and attire alike requiring daily renovation.
1883. D. Cook, Nights at the Play, vol. 1. ch. xv. The actor had
taken exceeding pains with the part. His face had been carefully
made up, and every detail of his dress and deportment elaborately
studied.