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.
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.
2. To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the
tiger made at the sportsmen.
Formerly, authors used to make on, to make forth, to make about; but
these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make away, to
make for, to make off, to make toward, etc.
3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as,
it makes for his advantage. M. Arnold.
Follow after the things which make for peace.
Rom. xiv. 19.
Considerations infinite Do make against it.
Shak.