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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.


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