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- [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.
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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
bone \bone\ b=on; 110, n. oe. bon, ban, as. b=an; akin to
icel. bein, sw. ben, dan. d. been, g. bein bone, leg; cf.
icel. beinn straight.
1. anat. the hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of
vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium
carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and
bone.
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note: even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute
cavities containing living matter and connected by
minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals
through which blood vessels ramify.
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2. one of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a
rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any
fragment of bony substance. pl. the frame or skeleton of
the body.
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3. anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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4. pl. two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers
and struck together to make a kind of music.
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5. pl. dice.
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6. whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a
corset.
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7. fig.: the framework of anything.
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a bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute.
a bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's
self about; a dispute to be settled with some one.
bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for
making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry.
bone black chem., the black, carbonaceous substance into
which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels;
-- called also animal charcoal. it is used as a
decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc.,
and as a black pigment. see ivory black, under black.
bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or
recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones
of man. --am. cyc.
bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a
fertilizer.
bone earth chem., the earthy residuum after the
calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of
calcium.
bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because
woven with bobbins of bone.
bone oil, an oil obtained by heating bones as in the
manufacture of bone black, and remarkable for containing
the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their
derivatives; -- also called dippel's oil.
bone setter. same as bonesetter. see in the vocabulary.
bone shark zool., the basking shark.
bone spavin. see under spavin.
bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue
color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
bone whale zool., a right whale.
to be upon the bones of, to attack. obs.
to make no bones, to make no scruple; not to hesitate.
low
to pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over
a bone; to settle a disagreement. colloq.
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see also:
a bone of contention a bone to pick bone ash bone black animal charcoal ivory black
black bone cave bone dust bone earth bone lace
bone oil dippel's oil bone setter bonesetter bone shark
bone spavin spavin bone turquoise bone whale to be upon the bones of
to make no bones to pick a bone with
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