make, v. t. [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. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
    He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf.   --Ex. xxxii. 4.
 (b) 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.   --Spenser.
 (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.
    Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.   --Judg. xvi. 25.
    Wealth maketh many friends.   --Prov. xix. 4.
    I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made.   --Dryden.
 (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.
    He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time.   --Bacon.
 (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.
    Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.   --Dryden.
 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.
    Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?   --Ex. ii. 14.
    See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh.   --Ex. vii. 1.
 Note: ☞ When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc.
 3. 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.   --Baker.
 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
 Note: ☞ In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted.
    I will make them hear my words.   --Deut. iv. 10.
    They should be made to rise at their early hour.   --Locke.
 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.
    And old cloak makes a new jerkin.   --Shak.
 6. 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.   --Waller.
 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.]
    Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?   --Dryden.
 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. “And make the Libyan shores.”
    They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.   --Sir T. Browne.
 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.]
    If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.   --Burton.
 (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.]
    Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement.   --Shak.
 - 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.
    He was all made up of love and charms!   --Addison.
 (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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 Head n.
 1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.
 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. “Their princes and heads.”
    The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.   --Tillotson.
    Your head I him appoint.   --Milton.
 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
    An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them.   --Addison.
 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
    It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head.   --Graunt.
 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
    Men who had lost both head and heart.   --Macaulay.
 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
    Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption.   --Shak.
    The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.   --Addison.
 12. Power; armed force.
    My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.   --Shak.
 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
 15. Bot. (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
 16. The antlers of a deer.
 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
 Note: ☞ Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest.  Cf. Head, a.
 A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak.
 By the head. Naut. See under By.
 Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator, Feed, etc.
 From head to foot, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. “Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.” --Shak.
 Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.]
 Head fast. Naut. See 5th Fast.
 Head kidney Anat., the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros.
 Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton.
 Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.]
 Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course.
 Head and shoulders. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. “They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.” --Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them.
 Heads or tails or Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, question, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side.
 Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.]
 Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course.
 off the top of my head, from quick recollection, or as an approximation; without research or calculation; -- a phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to questions, to indicate that a response is not necessarily accurate.
 Out of one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice or coöperation of another.
 Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.
 to go over the head of (a person), to appeal to a person superior to (a person) in line of command.
 To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane.
 To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw.
 To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. “He gave his able horse the head.” --Shak. “He has so long given his unruly passions their head.” --South.
 To his head, before his face. “An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head.” --Jer. Taylor.
 To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire.
 To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind.
 To make head, or To make head against, to resist with success; to advance.
 To show one's head, to appear. --Shak.
 To turn head, to turn the face or front. “The ravishers turn head, the fight renews.” --Dryden.