46. TO MAKE over. To settle in the hands of trustees.

Widows, who have tried one lover, Trust none again till th' have made over.

Hudibras. The wise betimes make over their estates. Make e'er thy honour by a deed of trust, And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.

47. TO MAKE over. To transfer.

Dryden.

The second mercy made over to us by the second covenant, is the promise of pardon. Hammond. Age and youth cannot be made over: nothing but time can take away years, or give them.

Collier. My waist is reduced to the depth of four inches by what I have already made over to my neck. Addison's Guardian.

Moor, to whom that patent was made over, was forced to leave off coining. Swift. 48. TO MAKE out. To clear; to explain; to clear to one's self.

Make out the rest.-I am disorder'd so, I know not farther what to say or do. Dryden. Antiquaries make out the most ancient medals from a letter with great difficulty to be discerned.

Felton. It may seem somewhat difficult to make out the bills of fare for some suppers. Arbuthnot. 49. TO MAKE out. To prove; to evince. There is no truth which a man may more evidently make out to himself, than the existence of a God.

Locke.

Though they are not self-evident principles, yet what may be made out from them by a wary deduction, may be depended on as certain and infallible truths. Locke.

Men of wit and parts, but of short thoughts and little meditation, distrust every thing for fiction that is not the dictate of sense, or made ut immediately to their senses.

Burnet.

We are to vindicate the just providence of God in the government of the world, and to endeavour, as well as we can, upon an imperfect view of things, to make out the beauty and har mony of all the seeming discords and irregularities of the divine administration. Tillotson.

Scaliger hath made out, that the history of Troy was no more the invention of Homer than of Virgil. Dryden.

In the passages from divines, most of the reasonings which make out both my propositions are already suggested. Atterbury.

cent.

I dare engage to make it out, that they will have their full principal and interest at six per Swift. 50. TO MAKE sure of. To consider as certain.

They made as sure of health and life, as if both of them were at their disposal. Dryden. 51. TO MAKE sure of. To secure to one's possession.

But whether marriage bring joy or sorrow, Make sure of this day, and hang to-morrow.

Dryden. 52. TO MAKE up. To get together. How will the farmer be able to make up his rent at quarter-day? Locke.

53. TO MAKE up. To reconcile; to com

pose.

I knew when seven justices could not make up a quarrel. Shakspeare.

54. TO MAKE up. To repair.

I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land. Ezekiel

55. TO MAKE up. To compose, as ingredients.

These are the lineaments of flattery, which do together make up a face of most extreme deformity. Government of the Tongue. He is to encounter an enemy made up of wiles and stratagems; an old serpent, a long experi enced deceiver. South.

Zeal should be made up of the largest measures of spiritual love, desire, hope, hatred, grief, indignation. Spratt. Oh he was all made up of love and charms; Whatever maid could wish, or man admire.

Addison.

The parties among us are made up on one side of moderate whigs, and on the other of presbyteriaus. Swift.

56. TO MAKE up. To shape.

A catapotium is a medicine swallowed solid, and most commonly made up in pills. Arbuthnot. 57. To MAKE up. To supply; to make less deficient.

Whatsoever, to make up the doctrine of man's salvation, is added as in supply of the scripture's insufficiency, we reject it. Hooker.

I borrowed that celebrated name for an evidence to my subject, that so what was wanting in my proof might be made up in the example.

Glanville

60. To MAKE up. To acccy plish; to conclude; to complete.

'There is doubt how far we are to proceed by collection before the full and complete measure of things necessary be made up. Hooker. Is not the lady Constance in this troop? -I know she is not; for this match made up, Her presence would have interrupted much. Shakspeare.

On Wednesday the general account is made up and printed, and on Thursday published.

Graunt.

This life is a scene of vanity, that soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the. consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life: this is what I can say upon experience, and what you will find to be true when you come to make up the account. Locke. 61. This is one of the words so frequently occurring, and used with so much latitude, that its whole extent is not easily comprehended, nor are its attenuated and fugitive meanings easily caught and restrained. The original sense, includ

ing either production or formation, may be traced through all the varieties of appli cation.

To MAKE. V, n.

1. To tend; to travel; to go any way. Oh me, leutenant! what villains have done this?

-I think, that one of them is hereabouts,
And cannot make
away. Shakspeare's Othello,
I do beseech your majesty make up,
Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
Shakspeare.

The earl of Lincoln resolved to make on where the king was, to give him battle, and marched towards Newark. Bacon. There made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it. Bacon's New Atlantis.

Warily provide, that while we make forth to that which is better, we meet not with that which is worse. Bacon's Essays.

A wonderful erroneous observation that māketh about, is commonly received contrary to experience. Bacon.

Make on, upon the heads Of men, struck down like piles, to reach the lives Of those remain and stand. Ben Jonson's Catiline. The Moors, terrified with the hideous cry of the soldiers making toward land, were easily beaten from the shore. Knolles.

When they set out from mount Sinai they made northward unto Rishmah. Brown.

Some speedy way for passage must be found; Make to the city by the postern gate. Dryden.

The bull

His easier conquest proudly did forego;
And making at him with a furious bound,
From his bent forehead aim'd a double wound.

Blinded he is by the love of himself to believe that the right is wrong, and wrong is right, when it makes for his own advantage. Savift. 3. To operate; to act as a proof or argument, or cause.

4.

Where neither the evidence of any law di vine, nor the strength of any invincible argu ment, otherwise found out by the light of rea son, nor any notable publick inconvenience doth make against that which our own laws ecclesiastical have instituted for the ordering of these af fairs; the very authority of the church itsel sufficeth. Hooker.

That which should make for them must prove, that men ought not to make laws for church regimen, but only keep those laws which in scripture they find made. Hooker.

It is very needful to be known, and maketh unto the right of the war against him. Spenser. Let us follow after the things which make for peace. Romans.

Perkin Warbeck finding that time and temporizing, which, whilst his practices were covert, made for him, did now, when they were discovered, rather make against him, resolved to try some exploit upon England. Bacon's Henry vii. A thing may make to my present purpose.

Boyle. It makes to this purpose, that the light conserving stones in Italy must be set in the sun before they retain light. Digby

What avails it to me to acknowledge, that I have not been able to do him right in any line; for even my own confession makes against me. Dryden. To show; to appear; to carry appear

ance.

Compare with indifferency these disparities of times, and we shall plainly perceive, that they make for the advantage of England at this present Bacon's War with Spain. None deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God. Bacon.

7.

I was assur'd that nothing was design'd Against thee but safe custody and hold; That made for me, I knew that liberty Would draw thee forth to perilous enterprizes. Milton.

To MAKE up for. To compensate; to be instead.

Have you got a supply of friends o make up for those who are gone? Swift to Popt

8. TO MAKE with. To concur.

Antiquity, custom, and consent, in the church of God, making with that which law doth esta

Hish, are themselves most sufficient reasons to uphold the same, unless some notable publick inconvenience enforce the contrary. Hooker. MAKE. . . [rom the verb.] Form;

structure; nature

Those mercurial spirits, which were only lent the earth to shes. men their folly in admiring it, possess delights ut a nobler make and nature, which antedate nmo.tality, Glanville.

Upon the decease of a lion the beasts met to chose a king: several put up, but one was not of te for a king; another wanted brains or strength. L'Estrange.

Is our perfection of so frail a make, As ev'ry plot can undermine and shake? Dryd. Several lies are produced in the loyal ward of Portoken of so feeble a make, as not to bear carriage to the Royal Exchange. Addison.

It may be with superior souls as with gigantick; which exceed the due proportion of parts, and, like the old heroes of that make, commit something near extravagance.

Pape.

MAKE. n. s. [maca, gemaca, Saxon.] Companion; favourite friend.

The elf therewith astonied,

Upstarted lightly from his looser make,
And his unsteady weapons 'gan in hand to take.
Fairy Queen.
Bid her therefore herself soon ready make,
To wait on love amongst his lovely crew;
Where every one that misseth then her make,
Shall be by him amearst with penance due.

For since the wise town,
Has let the sports down,
Of May games and morris,

The maids and their makes,

At dances and wakes,

Spenser.

Ben Jonson. [make and debate.]

Had their napkins and posies, And the wipers for their noses. MA KEBATE. n. s. Breeder of quarrels. Love in her passions, like a right makebate, whispered to both sides arguments of quarrel.

Sidney

Outrageous party-writers are like a couple of makebates, who inflame small quarrels by a thou sand stories.

MAKER. n. s. [from make.]

1. The Creator.

Swift.

MAʼKEWEIGHT. n. s. [make and weight.] Any small thing thrown in to make up weight.

Me lonely sitting, nor the glimmering light Of makerzight candle, nor the joyous task Or loving friend delights. Philips.

MALACHITE. N. s. This stone is sometimes intirely green, but lighter than that of the nephritick stone, so as in colour to resemble the leaf of the mallow, μαλάχη, from which it has its name; though sometimes it is veined with white, or spotted with blue or black. Woodward.

MA LADY. n. s. [maladie, Fr.] A disease; a distemper; a disorder of body; sick.

Lov's a malady without a cure; Fierce love has pierc'd me with his fiery dart; He fires within, and hisses at my heart. Dryden, MALANDERS. n. s. [from mal andare, Italian, to go ill.] A dry scab on the pastern of horses. MA'LAPERT. adj. [mal and pert.] Saucy; quick with impudence; sprightly; with our respect or decency.

Peace, master marquis, you are malapert; Your fire-new stamp of honour scarce current. Shakspeare,

If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword.

-What, what? nay, then, I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from you. Shaksp. Are you growing malapert? Will you force me to make use of my authority. Dryden, MALAPERTNESS. n. s. [from malapert.] Liveliness of reply without decency, quick impudence; sauciness. MALAPERTLY, atv. [from malapert.] Impudently; saucily.

To MALA XATE. v. a. [μaratlw.] Ta soften, or knead to softness any body. MALAXATION. n. s. [from malaxate.] The act of softening. MALE. adj. [male, French; masculus, Lat.] Of the sex that begets, not bears young; not female.

Which shall be heir of the two male twins, who, by the dissection of the mother, were laid open to the world? Locke.

You are the richest person in the commonwealth; you have no male child; your daughters are all married to wealthy patricians. Swift. MALE n. s. The he of any species.

In most the male is the greater, and in some few the female,

Bacan,

adj. [male and content.] Discon

Brother Clarence, how like you our choice, That you stand pensive, as half malecontent?

Shakspeare. Poor Clarence! Is it for a wife That thou art malecontent? I will provide thee. Shakspeare. The king, for securing his state against mutinous and malecontented subjects, who might have refuge in Scotland, sent a solemn ambassage to conclude a peace. Bacon.

They cannot signalize themselves as malecontents, without breaking through all the softer virtues. Addison. The usual way in despotick governments is to confine the male contents to some castle. Addison. MALECONTENTEDLY. adv. [from male. content.] With discontent. MALECONTENTEDNESS. 72. s. [from malecontent.] Discontentedness; want

of affection to government.

They would ascribe the laying down my paper to a spirit of malecontentedness. Spectator. MALEDICTED. adj. [maledictus, Latin.] Accursed.

Dict. MALEDICTION. n. s. [malediction, Fr. maledictio, Lat.] Curse; execration; denunciation of evil.

Then let my life long time on earth maintained be

To wretched me, the last, worst malediction.

The true original cause, divine malediction, Sidney. laid by the sin of man upon these creatures which God hath made for the use of man, was above the reach of natural capacity. Hooker.

In Spain they staid near eight months, during which Buckingham lay under millions of maledistions; which, upon the prince's arrival in the west, did vanish into praises. Wetton. MALEFACTION. n. s. [male and facio, Lat.] A crime; an offence.

Guilty creatures at a play

Have, by the very cunning of the scene,
Been struck so to the soul, that presently
They have proclaim'd their malefactions. Sbaksp.
MALEFACTOR. n. s. [male and facio,
Lat.] An offender against law; a cri-
minal; a guilty person.

A jaylor to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.
Fear his word,

The son of Duncan

Lives in the English court; and is receiv'd Of the most pious Edward with such grace, That the malevolerce of fortune nothing Takes from his high respect. Shakspeare. MALE VOLENT. adj. [male-volus, Latin.] Ill-disposed toward others; unfavourable; malignant.

I have thee in my arms, Though our malevolent stars have struggled hard, And held us long asunder. Dryden. MALE VOLENTLY. adv. [from malevolence.] Malignly; malignantly; with ill will. The oak did not only resent his fall, but vindicate him from aspersions malevolently cast upon him. Howel. MALICE. n s. [malice, Fr. malitia, Lat.] 1. Badness of design; deliberate inischief. God hath forgiven me many sins of malice, and therefore surely he will pity my infirmities. Taylor. 2. Ill intention to any one; desire of hurting.

Duncan is in his grave;
Malice domestick, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further!
Shakspeare.

When Satan who late fled before the threats
Of Gabriel out of Eden, now improv'd
In meditated fraud and malice, bent
On man's destruction, maugre what might hap
Of heavier on himself, fearless return'd. Milton.
To MALICE. v. a. [from the noun.] To
regard with ill will. Obsolete.

The cause why he this fly so maliced, Was that his mother which him bore and bred, The most fine-fingered workman on the ground, MALICIOUS. adj. [malicieux, Fr. malitiArachne, by his means, was vanquish'd. Spenser. osus, Lat.] Ill-disposed to any one ; intending ill; malignant.

We must not stint

Our necessary actions in the fear
To cope malicious censurers; which ever
As rav'nous fishes do a vessel follow
That is new-trimm'd.

I grant him bloody,

Shakspeare.

Sudden, malicious, smacking of ev'ry sin That has a name.

Shakspeare.

As much as malefactors do your sword. Roscom. It is a sad thing when men shall repair to the ministry, not for preferment but refuge; like malefactors flying to the altar, only to save their lives.

South.

An intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers maliciously bent against me, broke out, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction. Swift.

MALICIOUSNESS. n. s. [from malicious.] Malice; intention of mischief to another.

Not out of envy or maliciousness,

Do I forbear to crave your special aid. Herbert. MALIGN. adj. [maligne, French; maligus, Latin: the g is mute or liquescent. 1. Unfavourable; ill-disposed to any one; malicious.

Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon.

If in the constellations war were sprung,
Two planets rushing from aspect malign
Of fiercest opposition in mid sky

Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound. Milton.

Of contempt, and the malign hostile influence it has upon government, every man's experience will inform him.

South.

2. Infectious; fatal to the body; pestilential.

He that turneth the humours back, and maketh the wound bleed inwards, endangereth malign ulcers and pernicious imposthumations.

Bacon.

To MALIGN. v. a. [from the adjective.] 1. To regard with envy or malice.

them.

The people practise what mischiets and villanies they will against private men, whom they malign, by stealing their goods, or murdering Spenser. It is hardly to be thought that any governor should so malign his successor, as to suffer an evil to grow up which he might timely have kept under. Spenser. Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in the wilderness. Ecclesiasticus.

If it is a pleasure to be envied and shot at, to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling; then is it a pleasure to be great, and to be able to dispose of men's fortunes.

South.

2. Destructive tendency.

The infection doth produce a bubo, which according to the degree of its malignancy, either proves easily curable, or else it proceeds in its Wiseman.

venom.

MALIGNANT. adj. [malignant, French.] 1. Malign; envious; unpropitious; malicious; mischievous; intending or effecting ill.

O malignant and ill-boding stars!

Now art thou come unto a teast of death. Shaks. Not friended by his wish to your high person, His will is most malignant, and it stretches Beyond you to your friends.

Shakspeare. To good malignant, to bad men benign. Milt. They have seen all other notions besides their own represented in a false and malignant light; whereupon they judge and condemn at once.

Watts.

2. Hostile to life: as, malignant fevers.

They hold, that the cause of the gout is a malignant vapour that falls upon the joint; that the swelling is a kindness in nature, that calls down humours to damp the malignity of the vapours, and thereby assuage the pain. Temple.

Let the learn'd begin
Th' enquiry, where disease could enter in;

At place of potency, and sway o' th' state, If he should still malignantly remain Fast foe to the plebeians, your voices might Be curses to yourselves. Shakspeare. MALIGNER. n. s. [from malign.]

1. One who regards another with ill will. I thought it necessary to justify my character in point of cleanliness, which my maligners call in question. Swift.

2. Sarcastical censurer.

Such as these are philosophy's maligners, who pronounce the most generous contemplations, needless unprofitable subtleties. Glanville. MALIGNITY. n. s. malignité, French.] 1. Malice; maliciousness.

Deeds are done which man might charge aright

On stubborn fate, or undiscerning might, Had not their guilt the lawless soldiers known, And made the whole malignity their own. Tickel. 2. Contrariety to lite; destructive tendency.

Whether any tokens of poison did appear, reports are various; his physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. No redress could be obtained with any vigour proportionable to the malignity of that far-spread disease. King Charles.

3. Evilness of nature.

This shews the high malignity of fraud, that in the natural course of it tends to the destruction of common life, by destroying trust and mutual confidence. South.

MALIGNLY, adv. [from malign.] Envi ously; with ill will; mischievously.

Lest you think I railly more than teach, Or praise malignly arts I cannot reach; Let me for once presume t' instruct the times.

Pope MALKIN. n. s. [mal, of Mary, and kin, the diminutive termination.] A kind of mop made of clouts for sweeping ovens, thence a frightful figure of clouts dressed up; thence a dirty wench. Hanmer.

The kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her recchy neck, Clamb'ring the walls to eye him. Shakspeare. MALL. n. s. [malleus, Latin, a hammer.]

1. A kind of beater or hammer.

He took a mall, and after having hollowed the handle, and that part which strikes the ball, he enclosed in them several drugs. Spectator. 2. A stroke; a blow. Not in use. With mighty mall, The monster merciless nim made to fall.