make /(māk)/

1. A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. [Obs.]

   For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make.

imp. & p. p. made; p. pr. & vb. n. making

1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.

   He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf.

2. To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.

   And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights.

3. 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.

   Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.

   Wealth maketh many friends.

   I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made.

4. To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.

   He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time.

5. 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.

   Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.

6. 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.

   Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?

   See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh.

7. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.

   He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.

8. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

   I will make them hear my words.

   They should be made to rise at their early hour.

9. 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.

   And old cloak makes a new jerkin.

10. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham makes a hearty meal.

    The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity.

11. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.]

    Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?

12. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.

    They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.

    If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.

    Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement.

    He was all made up of love and charms!

1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make. [Obs.]

   A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.

2. To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.

   Follow after the things which make for peace.

   Considerations infinite Do make against it.

4. To increase; to augment; to accrue.
5. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic]

   To solace him some time, as I do when I make.

   Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled.

   My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me.

1. Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.

   It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine and shake?