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<p><b>3.</b> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>majores</ets>.]</ety> <def>Ancestors; ancestry.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; <as>as, he is elected by a <ex>majority</ex> of five hundred votes</as>. See <er>Plurality</er>.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>To go over to, &or; To join</col>, <col>the majority</col></mcol>, <cd>to die.</cd></cs>

<h1>Majorship</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Ma"jor*ship</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The office of major.</def>

<h1>Majoun</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Maj"oun</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Madjoun</er>.</def>

<h1>Majuscul\'91</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Ma*jus"cu*l\'91</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[L., fem. pl. fr. <ets>majusculus</ets> somewhat greater or great, dim. of <ets>major</ets>, <ets>majus</ets>. See <er>Major</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Pal\'91ography)</fld> <def>Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.</def>

<h1>Majuscule</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Ma*jus"cule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>majuscule</ets>. See <er>Majuscul\'91</er>.]</ety> <def>A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See <er>Majuscul\'91</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Majuscule writing</col>, <cd>writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.</cd></cs>

<h1>Makable</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Mak"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being made.</def>

<h1>Makaron</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Mak"a*ron</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Macaroon</er>, 2.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Make</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Make</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>maca</ets>, <ets>gemaca</ets>. See <er>Match</er>.]</ety> <def>A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my <b>make</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Make</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Make</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Made</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Making</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>maken</ets>, <ets>makien</ets>, AS. <ets>macian</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>mak<?/n</ets>, OFries. <ets>makia</ets>, D. <ets>maken</ets>, G. <ets>machen</ets>, OHG. <ets>mahh<?/n</ets> to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. <ets>mage</ets>. Cf. <er>Match</er> an equal.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.</def> Hence, in various specific uses or applications: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.</def>

<blockquote>He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had <b>made</b> it a molten calf. <i>Ex. xxxii. 4.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with <i>up</i>; as, to <i>make</i> up a story</def>.

<blockquote>And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with <b>made</b> delights. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(c)</sd> <def>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 <i>make</i> complaint, for to complain; to <i>make</i> record of, for to record; to <i>make</i> abode, for to abide, etc.</def>

<blockquote>Call for Samson, that he may <b>make</b> us sport. <i>Judg. xvi. 25.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Wealth <b>maketh</b> many friends. <i>Prov. xix. 4.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have <b>made</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>