Citations:make

verb

 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
 * Well, so I did; but yet I did not think To shew to all the world my pen and ink In such a mode; I only thought to make I knew not what; nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I; I did it my own self to gratify.
 * Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble; nor did I intend But to divert myself in doing this From worser thoughts which make me do amiss.


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
 * "I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned — they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
 * All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world.


 * 2012, Janie Ebinger, Live Well Eat Well, page 226:
 * The vinaigrette is what really makes this salad.

noun: kind

 * 2007, Jodi Thomas, Texas Princess, Penguin (ISBN 9781101206362)
 * “I know the first one. The old man is the one I sent to ask you to meet me.” Wes squinted, then nodded. “It was dark, but I remember the make of him. He&#39;d be the only one who knew you were here for I told no one.”

noun: mate or match

 * 1821, William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Richard Farmer, Edward Capell, Nicholas Rowe, The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, page 232:
 * So, in Kyng Appolyn of Thyre, 1510: &quot;Certes, madam, I sliolde hare great joy yfe ye had such a prynce to your make.&quot;

noun: ?

 * 1892, The American Gas Light Journal, page 367:
 * ... combustion in the superheater to clear out the deposits, so that you do not have to depend upon the conditions under active blast when you must turn on your make again at a certain time because your heats on the surface require it.