5. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] Chaucer.
Tennyson.
To solace him some time, as I do when I make.
P. Plowman.
To make as if, or To make as though, to pretend that; to make show
that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.).
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and
fled.
Josh. viii. 15.
My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with
me.
Latimer.
-- To make at, to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack.
-- To make away with. (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate;
hence, to spend; to dissipate. (c) To kill; to destroy. -- To make off,
to go away suddenly. -- To make out, to succeed; to be able at last; to
make shift; as, he made out to reconcile the contending parties. -- To
make up, to become reconciled or friendly. -- To make up for, to
compensate for; to supply an equivalent for. -- To make up to. (a) To
approach; as, a suspicious boat made up to us. (b) To pay addresses to;
to make love to. -- To make up with, to become reconciled to. [Colloq.]
-- To make with, to concur or agree with. Hooker.
Make, n. Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction;
shape; form.
It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine
and shake?
Dryden.
On the make,bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. [Low, U.
S.]
Make"bate` (?), n. [Make, v. + bate a quarrel.] One who excites
contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]
Make"-be*lief` (?), n. A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H.
Newman.
Make"-be*lieve` (?), n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of
children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike
make-believe." Tylor.
To forswear self-delusion and make- believe.