Part 6765

<blockquote>He was all <b>made up</b> of love and charms! <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To compensate; to make good; as, <i>to make up</i> a loss.</cd> <sd>(f)</sd> <cd>To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; <as>as, <ex>to make up</ex> accounts</as></cd>. <sd>(g)</sd> <cd>To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; <as>as, he was well <ex>made up</ex></as>.</cd> -- <col>To make up a face</col>, <cd>to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision.</cd> -- <col>To make up one's mind</col>, <cd>to reach a mental determination; to resolve.</cd> -- <col>To make water</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>To leak.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To urinate</cd>. -- <mcol><col>To make way</col>, &or; <col>To make one's way</col></mcol>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To make progress; to advance.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To open a passage; to clear the way</cd>. -- <col>To make words</col>, <cd>to multiply words.</cd></cs>

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

<hw>Make</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase <i>to meddle or make</i>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or <b>make</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; <as>as, he <ex>made toward home</ex>; <ex>the tiger made</ex> at the sportsmen.</as></def>

<note>&hand; Formerly, authors used <i>to make on</i>, <i>to make forth</i>, <i>to make about</i>; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, <i>to make at</i>, <i>to make away</i>, <i>to make for</i>, <i>to make off</i>, <i>to make toward</i>, etc.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with <i>for</i> or <i>against</i>; <as>as, it <ex>makes</ex> for his advantage</as>.</def>

<i>M. Arnold.</i>

<blockquote>Follow after the things which <b>make</b> for peace. <i>Rom. xiv. 19.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Considerations infinite Do <b>make</b> against it. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To increase; to augment; to accrue.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Chaucer. Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>To solace him some time, as I do when I <b>make</b>. <i>P. Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>To make as if</col>, &or; <col>To make as though</col></mcol>, <cd>to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under <er>Make</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>).</cd>

<blockquote>Joshua and all Israel <b>made as if</b> they were beaten before them, and fled. <i>Josh. viii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>My lord of London <b>maketh as though</b> he were greatly displeased with me. <i>Latimer.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To make at</col>, <cd>to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack.</cd> -- <col>To make away with</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To carry off.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate</cd>. <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To kill; to destroy.</cd> -- <col>To make off</col>, <cd>to go away suddenly.</cd> -- <col>To make out</col>, <cd>to succeed; to be able at last; to make shift; <as>as, he <ex>made out</ex> to reconcile the contending parties</as>.</cd> -- <col>To make up</col>, <cd>to become reconciled or friendly.</cd> -- <col>To make up for</col>, <cd>to compensate for; to supply an equivalent for.</cd> -- <col>To make up to</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To approach; <as>as, a suspicious boat <ex>made up to</ex> us</as>.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To pay addresses to; to make love to.</cd> -- <col>To make up with</col>, <cd>to become reconciled to.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To make with</col>, <cd>to concur or agree with. <i>Hooker</i>.</cd></cs>

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

<hw>Make</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.</def>

<blockquote>It our perfection of so frail a <b>make</b> As every plot can undermine and shake? <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>On the make</col>,<cd>bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. <mark>[Low, U. S.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Makebate</h1> <Xpage=885>

<hw>Make"bate`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Make</ets>, v. + <ets>bate</ets> a quarrel.]</ety> <def>One who excites contentions and quarrels.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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

<hw>Make"-be*lief`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A feigning to believe; make believe.</def>

<i>J. H. Newman.</i>