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[Fr. major ité, from Lat. major major (q. v.); Port. maioridade; Sp. may or i a.J sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f "Douglas, whose high deeds, Whose hot incursions, and great name in arms, Holds from all soldiers chief majority." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I. , iii. 2. 10. To acquire, to gain, to raise as a profit or gain. -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiv. "At sixty he made money of his genius and his glory." 11. To have or meet with as a result; to incur; as, to make a lo . 17. To serve; to answer for; to do the part or office of. "Thou would'st make a good fool."- Shakesp .: Lear , i. 5. 18. To pa over the distance of; to traverse, to travel over; as, He made five miles in the hour. 19. To represent; to consider as; to set down as. " Make not impo ible That which but seems unlike." mā-jõr-ship, s. [Eng.major; -ship .] The office, stantive. Thus, to make haste=to hasten; to make rank, or commi ion of a major; majority. ma-joun, s . [MADJOUN.] complaint to complain; to make confe ion=to confe ; to make demand=to demand; and to make abode to abide. "When from St. Albans we do make return, turn,, We'll see these things effected to the full." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . II ., 1. 3. (2) Make is often used before an infinitive, ex- pre ed or understood, with a causative sense; ma-jus-cüle, s. [Latin majuscula ( liter a )=a He made me (to) work; The medicine made him (to large or capital letter; from majusculus , dim in. from major , majus greater.] A capital letter; as dis be) sick. tinguished from a minuscule. Majuscules are found II. Naut.: To reach, attain to, or arrive at; to in Latin manuscripts of the sixth century and IMG:content-0847.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To tend, to move in a direction, to direct one's course, to proceed, to go. (Followed by words in dicating the direction or object; as, He made for home, he made after the boy.) "As the waves make toward the pebbled shore." Shakesp.: Sonnet 70. 4. To rise, to flow; as, The tide makes fast. 5. To invent; spec if., to compose or write poetry. [MAKER.] "The god of shepherds, Tityrus, is dead, Who taught me, homely as I can, to make ." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar ; June. Intransitively make is used periphrastically with adjectives, with the meaning of to be, to show bold, . "The heav'n, the air, the earth, and boundle sea, Make but one temple for the Deity." Waller. (Todd.) IMG:content-0848.png:[blocks in formation] (4) To fulfill, to accomplish, to carry out. "This letter doth make good the friar's words." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet , v. 3. IMG:content-0849.png:[blocks in formation] make (b) To prove; to establish by evidence or argument; to cause to appear. "There is no truth which a man may more evidently make out to himself, than the existence of a God."-Locke: Human Understanding. (c) To find or supply to the full; to make up. (d) To attempt to prove or establish; to pretend. "Scaliger hath made out that the history of Troy was no more the invention of Homer than of Virgil."- Dry den. more. (2) In trans.: To make a shift; to succeed and no 28. To make over : To transfer the right or title to; to convey, to alienate. "Your better way is to make over In trust your fortune to a lover." 29. To make sail: Nautical: Butler: Hudibras, ii. 507. make-up, 8. 2607 1. Print.: The arrangement of slip matter in columns, or galleys into suitable length for pages. 2. Theater : The manner in which an actor is dre ed, ., for a part in a play. *make (2), s . [A. S. gemaca , mac a =a mate; cogn. with Icel. maki =a mate; Sw. make a fellow, a mate, a match; mak a a spouse; Dan. mage -a mate, a fellow; O. S. gimako =a mate; O. Dan. maet ; Dut. maata mate.] A mate, a companion, a fellow, a husband or wife. [MATE, 8., MATCH (2), 8.] "Each not far behind him had his make, To wit, two ladies of most goodly hue." Spenser: F. Q., IV. ii. 30. *māke'-bāte, s. [Eng. make , v., and bate .] 1. Ord. Lang .: One who excites or breeds quarrels. "Barillon was therefore directed to act, with all po i, ble precautions against detection, the part of a makebate ." (1) To increase the quantity of sail already ex- -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. tended. (2) To sail or start; to set sail. 30. To make shift: To contrive or manage for the IMG:content-0850.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Bot .: Polemonium cæruleum . make'-gāme, s. [Eng. make , and game .] A butt. a flouting-stock and a make "I was treated as game."-Godwin: Mandeville, i. 263. *make-law, a. [Eng. make, v., and law . ] Or. daining laws. ( Stanyhurst.) *māke'-lě , *make-les, a . -le .] Matchle , unequaled. [ Eng . make (2), s.; *māke'-pēaçe, s. [ Eng.make , v., and peace .] A 32. To make tracks: To get away in a hurry. peacemaker, a reconciler; a composer or adjuster ( Slang .) 33. To make up: (1) Transitive: (a) To compose, as ingredients; to form the constituent parts of. "In fact disobedience and resistance made up the ordinary life of that population." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiii. (b) To collect into one ma or sum; as, to make up the amount of a debt. (c) To shape; as, to make up a ma into pills. (d) To supply what is deficient or wanting. "Whatsoever, to make up the doctrine of man's salvation, is added as in supply of the scripture's insufficiency, we reject it." - Hooker : Eccles. Polity. (e) To compensate, to make good; as, to make up a lo . (f) To settle, to adjust, to arrange; as, to make up accounts. (g) To repair. "I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge."- Ezekiel xiii. 5. (h) To a ume a particular form or cast of features; as, to make up a face. (i) To dre , as an actor for a part. 8 (j) To settle, to determine, to bring to a definite conclusion; as, to make up one's mind. (k) To reconcile, to adjust, to compose. of differences. "To be a make peace shall become my age: Throw down, my sou the Duke of Norfolk's gage." Shakesp.: Richard II., i. 1. māk-er, s. [Eng. make, v.; -er.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. One who makes or creates anything, especially the Creator. *2. A poet; a writer or composer of poetry. 3. One who produces, causes, or gives rise to anything; one who carries on any act or pursuit. "I am a maker of war and not a maker of phrases." Long fellow: Miles Standish, ii. II. Law : The person who signs a promi ory note, and who stands in the same position, after the note is endorsed, as the acceptor of a bill of exchange.