[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

make \make\, v. t. imp.  p. p. made m=ad; 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.
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                he . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after
                he had made it a molten calf.     --ex. xxxii.
                                                  4.
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      b to produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or
          false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
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                and art, with her contending, doth aspire
                to excel the natural with made delights.
                                                  --spenser.
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      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.
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                call for samson, that he may make us sport.
                                                  --judg. xvi.
                                                  25.
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                wealth maketh many friends.       --prov. xix.
                                                  4.
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                i will neither plead my age nor sickness in
                excuse of the faults which i have made.
                                                  --dryden.
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      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.
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                he accuseth neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck
                a second time.                    --bacon.
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      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 in a desired or desirable condition; to cause
          to thrive.
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                who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
                                                  --dryden.
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   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.
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            who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --ex.
                                                  ii. 14.
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            see, i have made thee a god to pharaoh. --ex. vii.
                                                  1.
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   note: when used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive
         pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make
         bold; to make free, etc.
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   3. to cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to
      esteem, suppose, or represent.
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            he is not that goose and ass that valla would make
            him.                                  --baker.
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   4. to require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause;
      to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and
      infinitive.
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   note: in the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually
         omitted.
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               i will make them hear my words.    --deut. iv.
                                                  10.
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               they should be made to rise at their early hour.
                                                  --locke.
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   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.
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            and old cloak makes a new jerkin.     --shak.
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   6. to compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to
      constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham
      makes a hearty meal.
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            the heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
            make but one temple for the deity.    --waller.
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   7. to be engaged or concerned in. obs.
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            gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole
            brotherhood of city bailiffs?         --dryden.
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   8. to reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "and
      make the libyan shores." --dryden.
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            they that sail in the middle can make no land of
            either side.                          --sir t.
                                                  browne.
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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.
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                if a child were crooked or deformed in body or
                mind, they made him away.         --burton.
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      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.
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            make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out
            at the casement.                      --shak.
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   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 gain sight of; to recognize; to discern; to descry;
          as, as they approached the city, he could make out the
          tower of the chrysler building.
      c to prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable
          to make out his case.
      d to make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make
          out the money.
      d to write out; to write down; -- used especially of a
          bank check or bill; as, he made out a check for the
          cost of the dinner; the workman made out a bill and
          handed it to him.

   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.
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                he was all made up of love and charms
                                                  --addison.
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      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 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.
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see also:
made making match to make a bed to make a card to make account 
account to make account of to make away to make believe to make bold 
to make the cards to make choice of to make danger to make default to make the doors 
to make free with free to make good good to make head 
to make light of light to make little of to make love to love 
to make meat to make merry to make much of to make no bones bone 
to make no difference to make no doubt to make no matter to make oath to make of 
to make one's law to make out to make over to make sail to make shift 
to make sternway to make strange to make suit to to make sure sure 
to make up to make up a face to make up one's mind to make way to make one's way 
to make words 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

head \head\ he^d, n. oe. hed, heved, heaved, as. he'afod;
   akin to d. hoofd, ohg. houbit, g. haupt, icel. h"ofueth,
   sw. hufvud, dan. hoved, goth. haubithorn. the word does not
   correspond regularly to l. caput head cf. e. chief,
   cadet, capital, and its origin is unknown.
   1. the anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the
      brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth,
      and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll;
      cephalon.
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   2. the uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an
      inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to
      resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger,
      thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from
      the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge;
      as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a
      sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the
      end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam
      boiler.
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   3. the place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed,
      of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the
      hood which covers the head.
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   4. the most prominent or important member of any organized
      body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a
      school, a church, a state, and the like. "their princes
      and heads." --robynson more's utopia.
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            the heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
                                                  --tillotson.
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            your head i him appoint.              --milton.
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   5. the place or honor, or of command; the most important or
      foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table;
      the head of a column of soldiers.
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            an army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke
            of marlborough at the head of them.   --addison.
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   6. each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a
      plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
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            it there be six millions of people, there are about
            four acres for every head.            --graunt.
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   7. the seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding;
      the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good
      mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him;
      of his own head, of his own thought or will.
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            men who had lost both head and heart. --macaulay.
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   8. the source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream
      or river; as, the head of the nile; hence, the altitude of
      the source, or the height of the surface, as of water,
      above a given place, as above an orifice at which it
      issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from
      motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a
      mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet
      head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from
      the outlet or the sea.
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   9. a headland; a promontory; as, gay head. --shak.
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   10. a separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be
       expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
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   11. culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force;
       height.
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             ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into
             corruption.                          --shak.
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             the indisposition which has long hung upon me, is
             at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly
             make an end of me or of itself.      --addison.
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   12. power; armed force.
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             my lord, my lord, the french have gathered head.
                                                  --shak.
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   13. a headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a
       head of hair. --swift.
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   14. an ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small
       cereals.
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   15. bot.
       a a dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies,
           thistles; a capitulum.
       b a dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a
           lettuce plant.
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   16. the antlers of a deer.
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   17. a rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or
       other effervescing liquor. --mortimer.
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   18. pl. tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --knight.
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   note: head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
         combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. cf.
         head, a.
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   a buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth
      year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --shak.

   by the head. naut. see under by.

   elevator head, feed head, etc. see under elevator,
      feed, etc.

   from head to foot, through the whole length of a man;
      completely; throughout. "arm me, audacity, from head to
      foot." --shak.

   head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely;
      as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. colloq.
      

   head fast. naut. see 5th fast.

   head kidney anat., the most anterior of the three pairs
      of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates;
      the pronephros.

   head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --milton.

   head pence, a poll tax. obs.

   head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls
      against her course.

   head and shoulders.
       a by force; violently; as, to drag one, head and
           shoulders. "they bring in every figure of speech,
           head and shoulders." --felton.
       b by the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a
           great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head
           and shoulders above them.

   heads or tails or head or tail, this side or that side;
      this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to
      decide a choice, question, or stake, head being the side
      of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure or, in
      case there is no head or face on either side, that side
      which has the date on it, and tail the other side.

   neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither
      this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a
      phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused;
      as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter.
      colloq.

   head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the
      vessel's course.

   off the top of my head, from quick recollection, or as an
      approximation; without research or calculation; -- a
      phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to
      questions, to indicate that a response is not necessarily
      accurate.

   out of one's own head, according to one's own idea; without
      advice or co"operation of another.

   over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. --m. arnold.

   to go over the head of a person, to appeal to a person
      superior to a person in line of command.

   to be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane.

   to come or draw to a head. see under come, draw.

   to give one the head, or to give head, to let go, or to
      give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license.
      "he gave his able horse the head." --shak. "he has so long
      given his unruly passions their head." --south.

   to his head, before his face. "an uncivil answer from a son
      to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a
      greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house
      or revile him to his head." --jer. taylor.

   to lay heads together, to consult; to conspire.

   to lose one's head, to lose presence of mind.

   to make head, or to make head against, to resist with
      success; to advance.

   to show one's head, to appear. --shak.

   to turn head, to turn the face or front. "the ravishers
      turn head, the fight renews." --dryden.
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chief cadet capital head a buck of the first head by the head 
by elevator head feed head elevator feed 
from head to foot head and ears head fast fast head kidney 
head money head pence head sea head and shoulders heads or tails 
head or tail neither head nor tail head wind off the top of my head out of one's own head 
over the head of to go over the head of a person to be out of one's head to come or draw to a head come 
draw to give one the head to give head to his head to lay heads together 
to lose one's head to make head to make head against to show one's head to turn head 

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