1877. J. Greenwood, Dick Temple, ch. vi. Ten or twelve pounds per week! There are hundreds of London thieves, who are known and branded as such, who do not make twice as many shillings.
2. (Winchester College).—To appropriate.
1866. Mansfield, School Life, 46. In the matter of certain articles . . . supplied by the College, we used to put a liberal interpretation on the eighth commandment . . . and it was considered fair to make them if you could.
3. (colloquial).—To earn.
1873. Jas. Greenwood, In Strange Company. But what one in vain looked for was the 'jolly beggar,' the oft-quoted and steadfastly believed-in personage who scorns work because he can make in a day three times the wages of an honest mechanic by the simple process of cadging.
On the make, adv. phr. (common).—Intent on (1) booty, or (2) profit.
To make up one's mouth, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To get one's living.
To make horns, verb. phr. (old).—1 .To reproach with cuckoldom by forking two fingers from the brows. See Horns.
2. (colloquial).—See Faces.
To make away (with oneself), verb. phr. (colloquial).—See quot. 1836.
1633. Spenser, Ireland [Ency. Dict.]. Clarence . . . soon after, by sinister means, was clean made away.
1836. C. Dickens, Pickwick Papers, p. 65 (ed. 1857). 'Perhaps he may hang himself.' 'Very good,' rejoined Mr. Simmery, pulling out the gold pencil-case again. 'I've no objection to take you that way. Say—makes away with himself.' 'Kills himself in fact' said Wilkins Flasher Esquire.
To make dainty, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To scruple.
To make nice, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—To scruple or object.
To make up, verb. phr. (theatrical and common).—1. To dress: as an actor for a part. See Make-up.
1602. Decker, Satiro-mastix in Works (1873), i. 253. Wat Terrill, th'art ill suited, ill made vp, In Sable collours, like a night piece dyed, Conn'st thou the Prologue of a Maske in blacke.
1633. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 3. I would have him The bravest, richest, and the properest man A tailor could make up; or all the poets, With the perfumers.
1655. Massinger, Very Woman, i. 1. Pedro. Morrow, sister! Do I not come unseasonably? Alm. Why, good brother? Pedro. Because you are not yet fully made up, Nor fit for visitation.
1844. Puck, p. 30. Feeling convinced that lovers were my line I once tried Romeo, but was hissed; since then My young ambition, sadly I resign,—My mind and face made up for first old men.
1869. Mrs. H. Wood, Roland Yorke, xxv. That lady . . . had absolute need of artistic aid in the matter of making-up; face and shape and hair and attire alike requiring daily renovation.
1883. D. Cook, Nights at the Play, vol. 1. ch. xv. The actor had taken exceeding pains with the part. His face had been carefully made up, and every detail of his dress and deportment elaborately studied.
2. (common).—To get up, or invent: as a catch or 'take in'.
To make (or take) it up, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be reconciled after a quarrel.
1598. Shakspeare, Merchant of Venice, v. 4, 103. I knew when seven justices could not make up a quarrel.
To make mouths, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To jeer; to grin.
To make ends meet, verb. phr. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.
