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making-up
a. In the various senses of make up (see make v.1 96); completion; compounding, composition; reconciliation; dressing up and disguising for the impersonation of a character; the balancing of accounts at the end of a certain period.
1593R. Bancroft Daung. Posit. iv. x. 168 Of purpose to haue drawen Lancaster vnto them, for the making vp of a quaternion. 1620Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry iii. i, Thy Taylor,..Can bring more to the making vp of a man, Then can be hop'd from thee. 1671Blagrave Astrol. Physick (title-p.), Directing the way to Distil and Extract their Vertues and making up of Medicines. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 39 The finites that go to the making up of an infinite. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Making Up, a term used by the distillers to express the bringing spirits up to a certain standard of strength by the addition of water. 1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. 467 As soon as the first person brings him his matter, he [sc. the clicker] counts off the number of lines,..then gives him another taking of copy, and proceeds with the making up [of the type pages]. 1816Jane Austen Emma I. xii. 206 She hoped they might now become friends again... Making-up indeed would not do. She certainly had not been in the wrong. 1827L. T. Rede Road to Stage 40 My readers will call to mind the excellent ‘making up’ of Mr. T. P. Cooke, in the Monster, ‘Frankenstein’. 1838Dickens Let. 15 Nov. (1965) I. 453 On the other side I forward you a copy of the making-up. 1840Carlyle Heroes ii, Any making-up of his mind. 1841W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 470 When a compositor in a companionship has composed his copy to within the quantity of a page of the work, he gives the overplus of the copy, after having completed his own last page, to him who is composing the copy that follows his matter... This is called giving the making-up. 1864D. W. Thompson Day Dreams Schoolm. (ed. 2) 231 Then will we promise to be good; we will throw tiny arms half round papa's neck..O the bliss of making up! 1869Mrs. H. Wood Roland Yorke xxv. II. 226 That lady..had absolute need of artistic aid in the matter of making-up. 1878E. C. Maddison Speculation on Stock Exchange 15 The process known as ‘making-up’ settles many bargains before the arrival of the settling-day. Making-up commences on the contango-day and is continued on the ticket-day. 1884McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 65 The master should therefore insist on his ‘making up’ being done thoroughly. 1890Daily News 23 Dec. 5/4 The herring boats came in from sea at Lowestoft last week, and the process of ‘making-up’ being now concluded [etc.]. 1892Ibid. 10 May 7/3 From ten to twenty millions have been added to the market value of Stock Exchange securities since the last making-up. 1894Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. I. Apr. 73 ‘Making-up’ is an art. 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 74 His worst quarrel with Gus and her friend, Clara Hopkins—the quarrel that lasted two weeks without a making up—came about because the new member refused to tell what the initials ‘stood for’. 1913Trans. Bibliogr. Soc. XII. 303 There seems to have been a good deal of very clumsy making-up of copies in the early part of last century.
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1875Encycl. Brit. I. 92/1 The price at which such transactions are adjusted is the ‘Making-Up’ price of the day. 1883Howells Woman's Reas. x. I. 206 I've written him a making-up letter. 1887Pall Mall G. 12 Oct. 12/1 The following table shows the drop since the last making-up price. 1890Ibid. 8 Sept. 7/2 Since the last ‘making up’ day most of the movements in the Home Railway market have been favourable to operators for the rise. 1895A. J. Wilson Gloss. Terms Stock Exch., Making up Prices, the prices fixed on the first and second days of the settlement for the purposes of continuing or carrying over transactions. The prices at which transactions continued to the following account are settled. 1900Daily News 3 Dec. 2/5 The shirt and making-up factories are..very well engaged. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 195/1 Three rail sidings are available for making-up trains. |