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[Colloq.] --
To make with, to concur or agree with.
Hooker.

Make, n. Structure, texture,
constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.

It our perfection of so frail a make

As every plot can undermine and shake?

Dryden.

On the make,bent upon making great profits;
greedy of gain. [Low, U. S.]

Make"bate` (?), n. [Make, v. +
bate a quarrel.] One who excites contentions and
quarrels. [Obs.]

Make"-be*lief` (?), n. A feigning
to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

Make"-be*lieve` (?), n. A feigning
to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction;
an invention. "Childlike make-believe."
Tylor.

To forswear self-delusion and make-
believe.

M. Arnold.

Make"-be*lieve`, a. Feigned;
insincere. "Make-believe reverence." G.
Eliot.

Mak"ed (?), obs.

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