makingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪkɪŋ/

Forms: late Old English–early Middle English macung, early Middle English makunge, Middle English makeng, Middle English makenge, Middle English makeyng, Middle English makiinde, Middle English makkyng, Middle English makying, Middle English–1500s makeinge, Middle English–1500s makyng, Middle English–1500s makynge, Middle English–1600s makeing, Middle English–1600s makinge, Middle English– making, 1500s mackyng, 1500s maken, 1500s makeynge, 1500s makung (transmission error), 1500s makyne, 1600s mackinge, 1600s mackynge; Scottish pre-1700 macken, pre-1700 mackeyn, pre-1700 macking, pre-1700 mackyn, pre-1700 macyn, pre-1700 maickinge, pre-1700 maikeng, pre-1700 maiking, pre-1700 makeing, pre-1700 makene, pre-1700 makkin, pre-1700 makking, pre-1700 makkyne, pre-1700 makyn, pre-1700 makynd, pre-1700 makyne, pre-1700 makyng, pre-1700 1700s– making, 1800s– maken, 1800s– makin, 1800s– makin'.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: make v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < make v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

I. Senses relating to the action of making something.

a. The action of make v.¹ in various senses; production, creation, construction, preparation; institution, appointment; doing, performance (of a specified action); conversion into or causing to become something; etc. Also (occasionally): the process of being made.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun]

shaft888

makinglOE

creationa1393

faction1440

uprearing1551

operationc1616

essentiating1635

emanation1742

naturing1880

the world > action or operation > doing > [noun]

workingOE

deedc1000

makinglOE

gestsa1340

doing1372

makea1400

workmanshipc1400

faction1447

action1483

performancec1487

performation1504

performent1527

fact1548

practice1553

agitation1573

practisy1573

function1578

affair1598

acture1609

perpetrationa1631

employing1707

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun]

makinglOE

workinga1382

forge1390

fashion1463

facture1574

workmanship1578

fabrication1602

manufaction1602

opificec1616

manufacture1622

makec1631

manufactorya1641

manufact1647

manufacturage1665

manufacturing1669

production1767

mfg.1854

artificing1866

process work1881

machine-production1898

metal-bending1964

society > law > legislation > [noun]

law-giving1475

making1483

legislation1606

nomothesy1656

legislature1659

law-making1690

society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [noun] > drawing up document

preparation?a1425

drawing up1523

makinga1556

redaction1616

society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun]

ordainmenta1325

instituingc1380

establishingc1400

assignment1447

prefermentc1465

appointing1520

anointment1561

ordination1650

appointment1658

constitution1665

makinga1715

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1101 Þurh þes macunge..se eorl Rotbert..þis land mid unfriðe gesohte.

c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. F) l. 41 Þis was ma[kunge] þæs almihties fæder, of þissen andweorke alle þing he iwrouhte.

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xci. 4 (MED) Þou..delited vp me in þy makeing [L. in factura tua].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1551 (MED) Þe planetes all ar went again O þair first making in to þe state.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 62 (MED) I shal..Do peynten and purtraye and paye for þe makynge.

1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 254/1 Sith the tymes of makynge of the seid Acts of Atteinders.

1494 W. Hilton Scale of Perfection ii. xxxiv We be beholde to loue Ihū moche for oure makynge but more for our ayenbyenge.

?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Aiii The makynge of westmyster halle.

a1556 T. Cranmer Let. in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 3 If by any meanes it had bene in me to haue letted the makyng of that will.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. vii. 13 Of this herbe they make Axsen, whiche is vsed for the making of glasses.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋2 To motion the making of a new Law for the abrogating of an old.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. i. 55 Whether the vrine were thinne at the first making or not.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §5 Many causes concurred to the making of this Deluge.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 113 Nor can [they] justly accuse Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 2 Most Counties in England afford Earth for the making of Bricks.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 320 They set it..up for a maxim, that the making of a Stadtholder was the giving up their liberty.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 52 I think she was cut out for a Gentlewoman, but she was spoil'd in the Making.

1764 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Rec. App. ii. 133 The Refuse or Waste used in the making of Allom, called Allom Slam.

1792 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 49/2 Casks fired in the making, till a thin charry matter is formed over the whole internal surface of the staves, will preserve the water..sweet.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 29 Whitening and plaister of Paris..whiten the flour, and contribute to its adhesion in making.

1828 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 343 In the making of the purchases.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 13 Since the making of the world.

1875 F. Guthrie Magn. & Electr. §236 If it be desired to get a still more nimble making and breaking of the circuit.

1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 18 July 138/1 The making of the codicil.

1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 133 The International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had intrusted him with the making of a report, for its future guidance.

1936 Stage June 16/2 A little wine is used in the making.

1984 V. S. Naipaul Finding Centre ii. 43 I was involved in the slow making of this story from the beginning to the end.

b. With prefixed noun.For more established compounds see the first element.

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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 35 (MED) Ac þer is anoþer lenere..þet leneþ wyþ-oute chapfare makiinde.

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 447 Of clooth makyng she hadde swich an haunt, She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt.

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 3113 (MED) In sorwe and dele-makyng Lenges non honour.

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 14538 With-oute any debate-makyng.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 552 (MED) Thei helden hem content and paied in her ȝifte making.

c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 38 At his othe making to the saide duke, he reserved the sovereinte..dew to his highe soverein seigneur, king Edwarde.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clv. 187 Such as were at the imposicion makyng.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxvj^v They take in hande also an other peace making.

1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron iv. i. 174 Their Apotheosis, or god-making Ceremonies.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 100 His talents of drum-beating and spatterdash-making.

1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxviii. 246 Did ye no hear o' the leesin' makin' that I was made the innocent victim o'?

1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah 182 An early effort of the Public Works Department in the canal-making line.

1880 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 5 The art of Carpet-making is dead, or dying fast.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxix. 104 At skimmings, at butter-makings, at cheese-makings.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 793/1 The material may be useless except for varnish-making.

1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xiv. 290 The chemical and biological changes that occur during silage-making are numerous and complex.

1972 Korea Times 19 Nov. 6/3 With the onset of the kimchi-making season, housewives are concerned about preparing jars in which the pickled vegetables are stocked.

c. spec. In technical uses: the training or bringing to the required condition of an animal; the preparation of hay; the curing of fish.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > taming or training

makinga1393

dauntingc1400

educationa1538

cicuration1623

training1677

mitigation1737

domestication1774

domiciliation1775

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field

parchinga1398

tedding1481

making?1523

winning1844

fielding1848

windrowing1970

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > of fish for market

making1809

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 1022 He tawhte men..the makinge Of Oxen, and of hors the same.

c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 61 (MED) Euery hounde þat haþ þat corage wil falle to be an heirere of nature with litel makyng.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv^v A man may speke of makyng of hay & getting of corne, but god disposeth and ordereth all thing.

1614 S. Latham Falconry i. iii. 12 Forget not all this time of her making..to walke round about her, vsing your voice, and giuing her many bits with your hand.

1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. II. xlvii. 154 The curing, or as it is called, the making of the fish.

1893 Field 17 June 904/3 The light swath is converted from grass to hay in a few hours without any ‘making’.

1902 Daily Chron. 21 July 3/1 Ponies that only require ‘making’ in order to become valuable.

†(a) to be in making: to be in the course of being made. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase]

to be in making?a1425

to be a-making1492

in the making1644

on the stocks1669

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) vi. 21 When þe toure of Babilon was in makyng.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 19 All manere of fardelles..maad and in makinge.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccviii. 190 That bisshop had in london a fayre toure in makynge.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/2 The pageauntes..were in making day and night at westminster.

1555–6 Louth Rec. (1891) 140 Item paide..at suche tyme as the petie scole was in making, xls.

1857 C. Kingsley Thoughts Gravel-pit in Misc. (1860) II. 381 When the South-Western Railway was in making.

(b) to be a-making (in same sense). Now chiefly regional.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase]

to be in making?a1425

to be a-making1492

in the making1644

on the stocks1669

1492 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 660 Hys tentys and alys be a-makyng faste and many of them be made.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxx. 143 Ther they brake all [the bridge] to peaces that had been longe a makynge.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. i. 23 All the prestes prayed, whyle the sacrifice was a makynge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 33 The Feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 15 The state or condition of Matter before the World was a-making, which is compendiously exprest by the word Chaos.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxiv. 44 The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making..were a sublime music to him.

1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 363 Were the pearl-gray stone a-cap that cap a penlight, it would beam just abaft the penman's shoulder and illuminate whoever looks thereover at these sentences a-making.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > be in preparation

brewa1400

to be makingc1515

hatch1595

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) liii. 178 In y^e mene seson that this bargen was makynge a paynym went in to y^e ladyes chamber.

1614 J. Chamberlain Let. 17 Feb. (1939) I. 512 There was a match making twixt the Lord Liles sonne and the Lord Burleighs eldest daughter..but yt is broken of.

1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life iii. 28 When the payment was making, he will not abate him one farthing.

1702 Royal Proclam. 8 Mar. in London Gaz. No. 3790/4 Corn or Grain making into Malt.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. liv. 171 Provisions of arms were making beyond the sea.

1767 S. Pennington Lett. III. 177 This..gentleman..informed her of the use that was making of her letters.

1791 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XII. 54 Those changes, which are either making, or contemplated.

1793 Copper-Plate Mag. No. 22 This ancient place..is watered by the River Soar,..now making navigable.

1816 P. B. Shelley Let. 12 July (1964) I. 486 The hay was making under the trees.

1891 Graphic 31 Oct. 526/3 That good prices are making for English cheese argues good quality.

1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark vi. 115 Serpents and culverins were making in the Dean forest.

(d) in the making: (existing) in an undeveloped or unfinished state.Quots. 1872 onwards may represent a secondary development of the phrase, perhaps after German im with infinitive, e.g. im Entstehen.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase]

to be in making?a1425

to be a-making1492

in the making1644

on the stocks1669

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 31 Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xv. 266 The man was still in the making..and there were both virtues and faults capable of shrinking or expanding.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxiv. 276 His opinion..may be our virtue in the making.

1879 H. Maudsley Pathol. of Mind vi. 282 Evil is good in the making as vice is virtue in the making.

1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat vii. 99 Unless the [newspaper] correspondent has seen history in the making.

1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness i, in Youth 68 This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making.

1951 R. Harling Paper Palace (1952) 117 The sense of being at the centre of a new world in the making.

1965 K. Amis & R. Conquest Egyptologists 139 A meal..was in the making.

1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 28 May c1/4 She photographed furniture in the making at Howerton Antique Reproductions.

e. With a possessive, attributing responsibility to a specified agent, as of ——'s making (in predicative use sometimes with omission of of).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing

diting1382

settinga1450

writingc1450

makinga1470

context?a1475

indite1508

inditing?a1513

inditement1567

contexture1603

composal1615

composing1873

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 713 Thus I am slayne..thorow two knyghtes of myne owne bryngynge up and of myne owne makynge.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 102 His creature of his awin making.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a4 I haue sent you such bokes as you wrote for and one moo of Rastels makinge.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. Gloss. Singing a Cantion of Colins making.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋13 [They] doe either make new Translations themselues, or follow new ones of other mens making.

1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 28 'Twas a match of his friends and not his owne making.

1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 12 The Laws of the Church are most Favourable to the Church, because they were the Churches own making.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Cinyras & Myrrha in Fables 175 Man, a Slave of his own making lives.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 44. ⁋3 The Statuary, who fell in Love with the Image of his own making.

1765 J. Otis Vindic. Brit. Colonies 10 Now Magna Carta is but a law of their making, and they may alter it at pleasure.

1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 278 A poet of Nature's own making.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 15 The only roads were of Nature's making.

1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xvii. 183 The marriage was not of her making.

1979 Guardian 5 July 9/3 Those men who keep their cool are dragged, willy nilly, into violence not of their making.

†2. Poetical composition; versifying. Also in plural: poetical compositions, poems. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry

poesyc1390

makinga1393

rhymingc1405

metringc1425

metrificationc1450

versifyingc1450

rhythming1582

poetrya1586

versinga1586

metredom1592

versification1603

the gay science1693

versemanship1762

rhymery1822

bard-craft1840

poeticism1847

poetism1848

poetics1851

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > poems or poems collectively

makinga1393

poetryc1395

rhymea1400

poetryc1475

line?1566

numbers1579

harping1819

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 3154 (MED) And thus forthy my final leve I take now for evere more, Withoute makynge any more.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 129 Ffor þis makyng I wille no mede.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. 16 (MED) Þow medlest þe with makynges and myȝtest go sey þi sauter.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 1789 But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie, But subgit be to alle poesye.

c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 49 (MED) Meruel ȝe not of þis makyng.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 828 I the refreyd tooke, Of hym that was in makyng souerayne, My mayster Chaucier.

1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. *v^v Flim flames, and gue gawes,..are soner rapte vp thenne are those which be lettered and Clarkly makings.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 200 A noble gentleman, and much delighted in vulgar making.

1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G3^v For, fro thy Makings milke, and mellie flowes To feed the Songster-swaines with Arts soot-meats.

3. Advancement, success. Now only in to be the making of (colloquial): to be what ensures the success or favourable development of (a person or thing).

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > ensure prosperity or success of

make1460

to be the making ofa1500

to make a man for ever1584

to make (a person) a man1584

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank

risinga1393

uprising1430

climbing1487

makinga1500

rise1608

aggrandizement1738

uprise1810

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 93 (MED) Kynges and vnderstandynge er brether..And vnderstandynge ys þe enchesoun þat puttys yn werk all hys beinges and werkes, ffor it ys his Makynge.

a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 731 in Poems (1899) 35 A man to be preferred to honour Of fee or office to his grete makyng.

c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 124 Your good and discret answere may be my making.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 215 They [sc. women] are the making or the marring of their house.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 31 A lucky Repartee hit upon by Chance may be the making of a Man.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 241 The fine Gentleman,..who doth so much Honour to his Family, and is to be the Making of it.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlix. 532 If it gets into one of the local papers, it will be the making of me.

1871 S. Smiles Character xi. 324 A wife may be the making or the unmaking of the best of men.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf iii. 27 And mind you, it's for your own soul's sake. It will be the making of you.

1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down 123 I've pestered our news editor into promising that he'll find me space for it..—it might be the making of me.

1986 A. Harding Also Georgiana (1988) x.146 Since I am so soon to be married they are naturally of the opinion that a good match would be the making of my brother!

†4. [Compare Middle Dutch mākinge, Dutch makinge (obsolete in this sense).] Testamentary disposition. Obsolete.

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun]

bequestc1300

provingc1330

legacy1485

devise1528

bequesting1572

making1621

bequeathmenta1627

bequeathal1642

bequeathing1674

testing1681

testamentationa1797

willing1797

settlement1815

testation1832

devising1868

1621 Pedigree & Copy of Will (Brasenose Coll. Oxf. Archives) (Hurst Cal. of Munim. 34, Chapel 4) I charge myne executors that the same [money] bee payed according to my makinge.

†II. Senses relating to manner or style of composition or construction.

a. Bodily form or appearance; build, physique. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [noun]

featurec1325

making1340

staturec1380

statea1387

bonea1400

figurec1400

makec1425

corpulence1477

corsage1481

makdom1488

mouldc1550

corporature1555

frame1566

dimension1600

limit1608

set1611

timber1612

compact1646

taille1663

fabric1695

moulding1815

physique1826

tournure1827

build1832

form1849

body type1866

body build1907

somatotype1940

size1985

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 244 Mannes makinge, huet y-zyxt þou foleant uor to zeche diverse guodes to þine zaule and to þine bodye?

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1317 (MED) And þer-withal of brawnys & of bonys, Eueryche of hem of makyng and fasioun Ful wel complete by proporcioun.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 4545 By his making, He is ful like to my derling.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 217 (MED) He behelde besely the figure and al the makynge of the body and Sayde, ‘Suche a man is lechelorus.’

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1355/1 Some..esteemed him a man for making well proportioned.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 282 Bigge he was of making, and withall verie tall.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 22 Stigmaticall in making worse in minde.

?c1640 Lovely Northerne Lasse iii, in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I. 589 I was so greatly taken with his speech, and with his comely making.

b. An edition or version of a book. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun]

makinga1382

text1870

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. Prol. 1 Masloch, that..the comun making [L. vulgata editio] Prouerbis clepeth.

1482 W. Caxton Higden's Polychron. Prohemye Polychronicon..emprynted & sette in forme by me William Caxton and a lytel embelysshed fro tholde makyng.

c. gen. The way in which a thing is made; style of construction; conformation, form, shape, build. Obsolete.

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the world > space > shape > [noun]

hue971

shapec1050

form1297

casta1300

entailc1320

fashionc1320

featurec1325

tailc1325

suitc1330

figuringc1385

figure1393

makinga1398

fasurec1400

facea1402

makec1425

proportionc1425

figuration?a1475

protracture1551

physiognomy1567

set1567

portraiturea1578

imagerya1592

model1597

plasmature1610

figurature1642

scheme1655

morphosis1675

turn1675

plasma1712

mould1725

format1936

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > style of creation or construction

shaft888

suitc1330

generationa1382

makinga1398

frame?1520

workmanship1578

imagerya1592

model1597

fabricaturec1600

builtc1615

fabric1644

module1649

get-up1857

fashioning1870

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > of construction or composition

shaft888

makea1325

suitc1330

makinga1398

mark1482

inventiona1513

workmanship1578

cut1590

model1597

mould1667

fashioning1870

Mk.1921

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > style of creation or construction > of manufactured things

makea1325

makinga1398

model1597

build1667

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 269 Suche manere of fisshes beþ yliche to serpentes in makynge.

1466 Contract 25 June in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 93 The same dores and wyndowes shalbe like of strength and makyng of the dores and wyndowes of the other new scoles.

1494 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 323 A newe mete-cloth of Lankeshire making.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. i There be plowes of dyuers makynges in dyuers countreis.

1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1304/1 That oyntment truly made was veri costly: which was the cause that the true making was lesse vsed.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 9774 I..am febiller..þen þe fre prinse, Both of myght, & of makyng, & of mayn strenkith.

1599 J. Lok in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 103 In colour, eating, and making like a Makarell.

1642 J. Shirley Sisters (1652) v. i. 49 I see the greatest men are flesh And blood, our souls are much upon a making.

1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 54 There are erected..[nine] hansome Crosses of stone; all of a making.

1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4. Sched. at Buckrams Buckrams of French making.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 263 Another sort of insect of a making much like a Spider.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. 45 A general and particular Description, Making, and Use of all the..Instruments.

d. Mental or moral character; = make n.² 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]

heartOE

erda1000

moodOE

i-mindOE

i-cundeOE

costc1175

lundc1175

evena1200

kinda1225

custc1275

couragec1300

the manner ofc1300

qualityc1300

talentc1330

attemperancec1374

complexionc1386

dispositiona1387

propertyc1390

naturea1393

assay1393

inclinationa1398

gentlenessa1400

proprietya1400

habitudec1400

makingc1400

conditionc1405

habitc1405

conceitc1425

affecta1460

ingeny1477

engine1488

stomach?1510

mind?a1513

ingine1533

affection1534

vein1536

humour?1563

natural1564

facultyc1565

concept1566

frame1567

temperature1583

geniusa1586

bent1587

constitution1589

composition1597

character1600

tune1600

qualification1602

infusion1604

spirits1604

dispose1609

selfness1611

disposure1613

composurea1616

racea1616

tempera1616

crasisc1616

directiona1639

grain1641

turn1647

complexure1648

genie1653

make1674

personality1710

tonea1751

bearing1795

liver1800

make-up1821

temperament1821

naturalness1850

selfhood1854

Wesen1854

naturel1856

sit1857

fibre1864

character structure1873

mentality1895

mindset1909

psyche1910

where it's (he's, she's) at1967

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > moral tendency or way of thinking

makingc1400

manners1589

way of thinking1650

make1674

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Digby) (1873) C. xiv. 193 Makynge [Huntington Man, as in mankynde, His [read Is] most yliche þe in wit and in werkes].

a1450 (a1400) Feast of Corpus Christi (Bodl.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 310 (MED) More is þe vertewȝ þat is of blessing þan is þe strengþe of any making, ffor þorwȝ blessing kinde is ofte forlore.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 44 William Earl of Pembroke was next, a man of another mould, and making.

III. Concrete senses.

a. Something that has been made; †a created thing, a creature (obsolete); a product of manufacture. Now chiefly: the quantity made at one time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > that which is created

creaturec1300

making1340

feature1483

facturea1500

sublunar1613

sublunary1625

subcelestial1652

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > manufactured article or product

workOE

making1340

manufacture1587

preparation1590

manufactory1653

manufact1664

manufacturage1665

fabric1753

end-product1939

run-off1952

the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a definite or specified quantity or amount > specific quantities or amounts > produced or obtained > at one time

making1644

batch1713

lot1884

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 92 Þet body of man is þe meste poure makynge and þe vileste þet is.

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxlii. 5 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 268 (MED) In makinges þat þou has wroghte Ofe þine hende i wele bithoghte.

a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 912 (MED) And harde hyt was for to deuyse The curyous makynge þat þer-on was.

1644 in S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands (1822) 594 You did thereby marr and undo twa whole makings of the said bear, qlk never did good.

1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 250 The shape beheld he would grant to be a making in the beholder's own brain; but the facient, he would contend, was a several and other subject.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 139 Whatever quantity is required for any particular job of work should be made all at one time; no two makings coming away alike, but depending entirely upon accident.

1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Making,..2. What has been made, especially at one time; as, the whole making is before you.

1890 Century Dict. (at cited word) A making of bread.

1974 Author Spring 39/2 Whereas it was, until recently, possible to get a making of paper in ten days, a publisher now has to wait more than ten weeks for an ordinary grade.

1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin xii. 116 One ‘making’ of broth..could go on so long you could imagine that you would never see the end of it.

b. colloquial. In plural. Earnings, profits.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun]

earningeOE

issuea1325

lucrec1380

lucre of gainc1386

return1419

feracityc1420

revenue1427

vantagec1430

afframing1440

revenue1440

availc1449

proventc1451

provenuec1487

rent1513

fardel1523

chevisance1535

gains1546

commodity1577

proceed1578

increasal1601

benefit1606

endowment1615

gaininga1631

superlucration1683

profit1697

bunce1706

making1837

bunt1851

plunder1851

yield1877

recovery1931

earner1970

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 122 That a wife shall possess half, or a large part, of her husband's earnings or makings.

1892 Cassell's Sat. Jrnl. 21 Sept. 13/3 My makings in the way of tips bringing in on an average about twice that sum.

1900 Daily News 10 Feb. 2/4 ‘Makings’, in the way of tips, had been very poor.

a. The material out of which something may be made; the potentiality of becoming something. Later also in plural: the materials, equipment, etc., required for making something; ingredients. Usually with of, esp. in to have (also be) the making(s) of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > be capable of [verb (transitive)] > of becoming

to have (also be) the making(s) of1623

the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [noun]

possea1592

making1623

potentiality1625

potentialness1668

existibility1677

pregnancy1818

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > material

matter1340

substancec1350

subject matter1535

making1623

material1624

substratuma1676

materiality1811

hypostase1867

materiature1881

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. i. 87 She had all the Royall makings of a Queene.

1827 G. Griffin Tales Munster Festivals III. 89 I wisht you went to the cup-board an brought us the makens of a jug o' punch.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxvi. 398 He seemed to have the makings of a very nice fellow about him.

1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iii. 17 There was the making of a good rider in many of them.

1861 W. H. Russell in Times 24 Sept. They are not an army, but they are the making, as we say, of a splendid one.

1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won ii. 16 There was possibly the makings of a great cross-country horse in her.

1918 ‘B. MacNamara’ Valley of Squinting Windows 4 And I standing in the presence of the makings of a priest!

1950 Canad. Home Jrnl. Jan. 24 The cake-mix... The package which would yield the principal makings for a good cake.

a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 154 He hasn't even got the makings.

1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 55/1 Phoebe Snow is not yet a mature artist. Though the makings are nowhere more evident than on her third album.

1987 S. Barr & J. Poppy Flame iii. 40 Here it wasn't even lunchtime and we already had the making of slapstick.

b. In plural. colloquial (originally U.S.). Paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > tobacco and paper for rolling

makings1895

cigarette-paper-

1895 J. London in Oakland (Calif.) High School Aegis 4 Nov. in R. W. Etulain Jack London on Road (1979) 65 Hello ye stiffs!—got the makin's? I got ter smoke so bad I can taste it.

1905 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Dec. 817/1 He took out his ‘makings’ and rolled a cigarette.

1912 Collier's 21 Dec. 23/2 A revelation to any man who doesn't know a real ‘makin's’ cigarette.

1930 J. Devanny Bushman Burke 26 He grinned and took out the ‘makings’.

1949 S. P. Llewellyn Troopships 7 The normal Kiwi..his clothes in a heap beside him, the ‘makings’ handy.

1963 H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 30 I gave McKinnon enough money to get me a package of makings.

1978 T. O'Brien Going after Cacciato i. 9 Oscar Johnson took out his pouch of makings, rolled a joint.

8. In plural. Coal Mining. Material hewed out in holing (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 36 Makings, the small coals hewed out in kirving.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Makings, the slack and dirt made in holing.

Compounds

C1.

making-cylinder n. (in a cylinder paper-machine) the cylinder on which the pulp is felted into a sheet or web (distinguished from the beating cylinder and the drying cylinder).

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1376/2 The web of pulp is taken from the making-cylinder.

making-felt n. (in a cylinder paper-machine) the felt on which the web of pulp is taken from the making-cylinder.

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1376/2 Making-felt (Paper), that felt of a cylinder paper-machine on which the web of pulp is taken from the making-cylinder.

making-iron n. Shipbuilding a kind of grooved chisel used by caulkers to drive oakum into ships' seams; cf. meaking iron n.

ΚΠ

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Calfat double, a making-iron.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1376/2 Making-iron, a large calking-iron with grooves lengthways of its face, used for the final driving of oakum into the seams.

C2.

a. With following adverb or adjective, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs (see make v.¹).

(a)

making good n.

ΚΠ

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. viii. 180 For the manning and making good of that Citie.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. vii. 34 Art thou sure, that the making good of such a vow, will not totally bankrupt thee?

1821 J. Severn Let. 12 Jan. in J. Keats Lett. (1958) II. 368 All the walls must be scraped—and those devils will come upon me for 100£ or 150£—the making good.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1386 All making good as it is technically called—i.e. patching up holes in old plastering—used to be done with plaster.

1965 I. H. Seeley Building Quantities Explained ix. 140 Note the making good of plaster around ventilators, etc., is classified according to size.

2012 Constit. Polit. Econ. 23 210 A cardinal principle of contractual obligation is the keeping of promises or the making good on failures to keep promises.

making ready n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun]

yarkingc1000

forgraithinga1300

apparellingc1315

ordinancec1330

purveyancec1330

graithinga1340

purveying1340

providencea1382

making readyc1384

preparationa1393

paring1393

provisiona1398

parelc1425

apparelc1430

parelling?a1440

ablingc1450

munition1480

preparing1497

arraya1500

readyinga1500

repurveancea1500

ordaining1509

apparation1533

preparementa1538

apprest1539

preparaturea1540

preparance1543

order1545

apparance1546

prepare1548

fore-preparationa1586

ettlingc1600

apparelment1607

parationa1617

comparation1623

address1633

apparatus1638

prep1920

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John xix. 14 It was the makinge redy, or euyn of pask.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 4 Kings vi. 23 Greet makyng redi of metis was set forth to hem, and thei eten and drunken.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Makyng redy, parure.

1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 73 Stereotyping... One man, and sometimes two, are engaged in what is technically called making ready.

1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 295/2 Making Ready—the act of getting a form ready to be printed;..Making ready may be said to form the chief portion of the pressman's duty.

1909 H. Hart in Let. To a printer the difference between a ‘pull’ and a ‘finished impression’ is, that the one has no preliminary making-ready, and the other has.

making-off n.

ΚΠ

1815 J. Laing Voy. Spitzbergen (1822) 99 The process of paring and barrelling up the blubber, is termed making off.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Flensing The blubber..is cut into square pieces and stowed in the hold; afterwards, these are..cut into smaller pieces to be stowed away in casks; this latter process is termed making-off.

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 286 Paring and barreling blubber, termed making-off.

(b)

making-out n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] > understanding, comprehension

knowing1340

taking1395

apprehending1398

feela1400

conceitc1405

perceitc1460

comprehension?15..

intellection?1526

apprension1589

making-outa1601

reception1612

uptaking1614

perceivancy1649

comprehending1668

recognition1749

prehension1836

prension1837

wavelength1925

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

ymonec950

moneOE

meanc1175

manredc1275

swivinga1300

couplec1320

companyc1330

fellowred1340

the service of Venusc1350

miskissinga1387

fellowshipc1390

meddlinga1398

carnal knowinga1400

flesha1400

knowledgea1400

knowledginga1400

japec1400

commoning?c1425

commixtionc1429

itc1440

communicationc1450

couplingc1475

mellingc1480

carnality1483

copulation1483

mixturea1500

Venus act?1507

Venus exercise?1507

Venus play?1507

Venus work?1507

conversation?c1510

flesh-company1522

act?1532

carnal knowledge1532

occupying?1544

congression1546

soil1555

conjunction1567

fucking1568

rem in re1568

commixture1573

coiture1574

shaking of the sheets?1577

cohabitation1579

bedding1589

congress1589

union1598

embrace1599

making-outa1601

rutting1600

noddy1602

poop-noddy1606

conversinga1610

carnal confederacy1610

wapping1610

businessa1612

coition1615

doinga1616

amation1623

commerce1624

hot cocklesa1627

other thing1628

buck1632

act of love1638

commistion1658

subagitation1658

cuntc1664

coit1671

intimacy1676

the last favour1676

quiffing1686

old hat1697

correspondence1698

frigging1708

Moll Peatley1711

coitus1713

sexual intercourse1753

shagging1772

connection1791

intercourse1803

interunion1822

greens1846

tail1846

copula1864

poking1864

fuckeea1866

sex relation1871

wantonizing1884

belly-flopping1893

twatting1893

jelly roll1895

mattress-jig1896

sex1900

screwing1904

jazz1918

zig-zig1918

other1922

booty1926

pigmeat1926

jazzing1927

poontang1927

relations1927

whoopee1928

nookie1930

hump1931

jig-a-jig1932

homework1933

quickie1933

nasty1934

jig-jig1935

crumpet1936

pussy1937

Sir Berkeley1937

pom-pom1945

poon1947

charvering1954

mollocking1959

leg1967

rumpy-pumpy1968

shafting1971

home plate1972

pata-pata1977

bonking1985

legover1985

knobbing1986

rumpo1986

fanny1993

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun]

playOE

loveOE

toucha1400

chamber workc1450

venery1497

bed-glee1582

bed-game1596

fiddling1622

twatting1893

sexual relations1897

fun time1905

massage1906

sex play1922

actionc1930

hanky-panky1939

making-out1957

lumber1966

a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 67 The Chancellour had the keeping of the Rolles of Record, and the making out of Writs originall.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 118 For the better making out of which, we are to bethink our selves, that [etc.].

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 181 Half the chiaroscuro is totally destroyed by the haggling, blackening, and ‘making out’ of the engravers.

1957 F. Kohner Gidget vii. 76 ‘No sweaty hands, no making out in drive-in movies.’ ‘Making out?’ ‘My God, Larry, where've you been living. I guess you still call it necking.’

1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 76/2 Back in junior high Diane was constantly fantasizing about sex...When she finally got around to making out, she didn't make out so well.

making-over n.

ΚΠ

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 129 We shall find that begetting the like, is making over of springs.

1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xvii. 133 Even now, had it been practicable, she would have made over to him..all her interest in the Vavasor estate. But any such making over was impossible.

1970 E. Bruton Diamonds xi. 202 Top quality diamonds are given a final check visually and ‘repair’ work, known as making-over, carried out if necessary.

1988 Times 8 Aug. 15/1 Making-over is a primal human urge.

making-as-if n. pretence, make-believe.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 3 May 273/2 That ordinary and vulgar state-cunning,—that wretched making-as-if.

making-merry n. rare = merrymaking n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun]

mirthOE

joyc1275

jollitya1300

joy-makingc1330

good fellowship?c1430

wine and womena1450

junketing1555

merrymake1579

gaiety1612

jovialty1621

joviality1626

mirth-making1638

jovialness1658

jollitry?c1685

goodfellowhood1716

merrymaking1779

conviviality1791

jollification1818

making-merry1823

carnivalizing1841

skite1869

Wein, Weib, und Gesang1885

balling1942

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. iii^*. 60 A making-merry in the house of Tirzah.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	making
释义	makingn.¹ Brit. /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/ Forms: late Old English–early Middle English macung, early Middle English makunge, Middle English makeng, Middle English makenge, Middle English makeyng, Middle English makiinde, Middle English makkyng, Middle English makying, Middle English–1500s makeinge, Middle English–1500s makyng, Middle English–1500s makynge, Middle English–1600s makeing, Middle English–1600s makinge, Middle English– making, 1500s mackyng, 1500s maken, 1500s makeynge, 1500s makung (transmission error), 1500s makyne, 1600s mackinge, 1600s mackynge; Scottish pre-1700 macken, pre-1700 mackeyn, pre-1700 macking, pre-1700 mackyn, pre-1700 macyn, pre-1700 maickinge, pre-1700 maikeng, pre-1700 maiking, pre-1700 makeing, pre-1700 makene, pre-1700 makkin, pre-1700 makking, pre-1700 makkyne, pre-1700 makyn, pre-1700 makynd, pre-1700 makyne, pre-1700 makyng, pre-1700 1700s– making, 1800s– maken, 1800s– makin, 1800s– makin'. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: make v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < make v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. I. Senses relating to the action of making something. 1. a. The action of make v.¹ in various senses; production, creation, construction, preparation; institution, appointment; doing, performance (of a specified action); conversion into or causing to become something; etc. Also (occasionally): the process of being made. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] shaft888 makinglOE creationa1393 faction1440 uprearing1551 operationc1616 essentiating1635 emanation1742 naturing1880 the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] workingOE deedc1000 makinglOE gestsa1340 doing1372 makea1400 workmanshipc1400 faction1447 action1483 performancec1487 performation1504 performent1527 fact1548 practice1553 agitation1573 practisy1573 function1578 affair1598 acture1609 perpetrationa1631 employing1707 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] makinglOE workinga1382 forge1390 fashion1463 facture1574 workmanship1578 fabrication1602 manufaction1602 opificec1616 manufacture1622 makec1631 manufactorya1641 manufact1647 manufacturage1665 manufacturing1669 production1767 mfg.1854 artificing1866 process work1881 machine-production1898 metal-bending1964 society > law > legislation > [noun] law-giving1475 making1483 legislation1606 nomothesy1656 legislature1659 law-making1690 society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [noun] > drawing up document preparation?a1425 drawing up1523 makinga1556 redaction1616 society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] ordainmenta1325 instituingc1380 establishingc1400 assignment1447 prefermentc1465 appointing1520 anointment1561 ordination1650 appointment1658 constitution1665 makinga1715 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1101 Þurh þes macunge..se eorl Rotbert..þis land mid unfriðe gesohte. c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. F) l. 41 Þis was ma[kunge] þæs almihties fæder, of þissen andweorke alle þing he iwrouhte. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xci. 4 (MED) Þou..delited vp me in þy makeing [L. in factura tua]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1551 (MED) Þe planetes all ar went again O þair first making in to þe state. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 62 (MED) I shal..Do peynten and purtraye and paye for þe makynge. 1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 254/1 Sith the tymes of makynge of the seid Acts of Atteinders. 1494 W. Hilton Scale of Perfection ii. xxxiv We be beholde to loue Ihū moche for oure makynge but more for our ayenbyenge. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Aiii The makynge of westmyster halle. a1556 T. Cranmer Let.* in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 3 If by any meanes it had bene in me to haue letted the makyng of that will. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. vii. 13 Of this herbe they make Axsen, whiche is vsed for the making of glasses. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋2 To motion the making of a new Law for the abrogating of an old. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. i. 55 Whether the vrine were thinne at the first making or not. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §5 Many causes concurred to the making of this Deluge. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 113 Nor can [they] justly accuse Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate. View more context for this quotation 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 2 Most Counties in England afford Earth for the making of Bricks. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 320 They set it..up for a maxim, that the making of a Stadtholder was the giving up their liberty. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 52 I think she was cut out for a Gentlewoman, but she was spoil'd in the Making. 1764 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Rec. App. ii. 133 The Refuse or Waste used in the making of Allom, called Allom Slam. 1792 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 49/2 Casks fired in the making, till a thin charry matter is formed over the whole internal surface of the staves, will preserve the water..sweet. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 29 Whitening and plaister of Paris..whiten the flour, and contribute to its adhesion in making. 1828 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 343 In the making of the purchases. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 13 Since the making of the world. 1875 F. Guthrie Magn. & Electr. §236 If it be desired to get a still more nimble making and breaking of the circuit. 1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 18 July 138/1 The making of the codicil. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 133 The International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had intrusted him with the making of a report, for its future guidance. 1936 Stage June 16/2 A little wine is used in the making. 1984 V. S. Naipaul Finding Centre ii. 43 I was involved in the slow making of this story from the beginning to the end. b. With prefixed noun.For more established compounds see the first element. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 35 (MED) Ac þer is anoþer lenere..þet leneþ wyþ-oute chapfare makiinde. c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 447 Of clooth makyng she hadde swich an haunt, She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 3113 (MED) In sorwe and dele-makyng Lenges non honour. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 14538 With-oute any debate-makyng. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 552 (MED) Thei helden hem content and paied in her ȝifte making. c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 38 At his othe making to the saide duke, he reserved the sovereinte..dew to his highe soverein seigneur, king Edwarde. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clv. 187 Such as were at the imposicion makyng. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxvj^v They take in hande also an other peace making. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron iv. i. 174 Their Apotheosis, or god-making Ceremonies. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 100 His talents of drum-beating and spatterdash-making. 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxviii. 246 Did ye no hear o' the leesin' makin' that I was made the innocent victim o'? 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah 182 An early effort of the Public Works Department in the canal-making line. 1880 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 5 The art of Carpet-making is dead, or dying fast. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxix. 104 At skimmings, at butter-makings, at cheese-makings. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 793/1 The material may be useless except for varnish-making. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xiv. 290 The chemical and biological changes that occur during silage-making are numerous and complex. 1972 Korea Times 19 Nov. 6/3 With the onset of the kimchi-making season, housewives are concerned about preparing jars in which the pickled vegetables are stocked. c. spec. In technical uses: the training or bringing to the required condition of an animal; the preparation of hay; the curing of fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > taming or training makinga1393 dauntingc1400 educationa1538 cicuration1623 training1677 mitigation1737 domestication1774 domiciliation1775 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field parchinga1398 tedding1481 making?1523 winning1844 fielding1848 windrowing1970 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > of fish for market making1809 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 1022 He tawhte men..the makinge Of Oxen, and of hors the same. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 61 (MED) Euery hounde þat haþ þat corage wil falle to be an heirere of nature with litel makyng. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv^v A man may speke of makyng of hay & getting of corne, but god disposeth and ordereth all thing. 1614 S. Latham Falconry i. iii. 12 Forget not all this time of her making..to walke round about her, vsing your voice, and giuing her many bits with your hand. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. II. xlvii. 154 The curing, or as it is called, the making of the fish. 1893 Field 17 June 904/3 The light swath is converted from grass to hay in a few hours without any ‘making’. 1902 Daily Chron. 21 July 3/1 Ponies that only require ‘making’ in order to become valuable. d. †(a) to be in making: to be in the course of being made. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] to be in making?a1425 to be a-making1492 in the making1644 on the stocks1669 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) vi. 21 When þe toure of Babilon was in makyng. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 19 All manere of fardelles..maad and in makinge. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccviii. 190 That bisshop had in london a fayre toure in makynge. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/2 The pageauntes..were in making day and night at westminster. 1555–6 Louth Rec. (1891) 140 Item paide..at suche tyme as the petie scole was in making, xls. 1857 C. Kingsley Thoughts Gravel-pit in Misc. (1860) II. 381 When the South-Western Railway was in making. (b) to be a-making (in same sense). Now chiefly regional. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] to be in making?a1425 to be a-making1492 in the making1644 on the stocks1669 1492 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 660 Hys tentys and alys be a-makyng faste and many of them be made. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxx. 143 Ther they brake all [the bridge] to peaces that had been longe a makynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. i. 23 All the prestes prayed, whyle the sacrifice was a makynge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 33 The Feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making. View more context for this quotation 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 15 The state or condition of Matter before the World was a-making, which is compendiously exprest by the word Chaos. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxiv. 44 The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making..were a sublime music to him. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 363 Were the pearl-gray stone a-cap that cap a penlight, it would beam just abaft the penman's shoulder and illuminate whoever looks thereover at these sentences a-making. (c) to be making. Now archaic and regional. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > be in preparation brewa1400 to be makingc1515 hatch1595 c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) liii. 178 In y^e mene seson that this bargen was makynge a paynym went in to y^e ladyes chamber. 1614 J. Chamberlain Let. 17 Feb. (1939) I. 512 There was a match making twixt the Lord Liles sonne and the Lord Burleighs eldest daughter..but yt is broken of. 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life iii. 28 When the payment was making, he will not abate him one farthing. 1702 Royal Proclam. 8 Mar. in London Gaz. No. 3790/4 Corn or Grain making into Malt. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. liv. 171 Provisions of arms were making beyond the sea. 1767 S. Pennington Lett. III. 177 This..gentleman..informed her of the use that was making of her letters. 1791 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XII. 54 Those changes, which are either making, or contemplated. 1793 Copper-Plate Mag. No. 22 This ancient place..is watered by the River Soar,..now making navigable. 1816 P. B. Shelley Let. 12 July (1964) I. 486 The hay was making under the trees. 1891 Graphic 31 Oct. 526/3 That good prices are making for English cheese argues good quality. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark vi. 115 Serpents and culverins were making in the Dean forest. (d) in the making: (existing) in an undeveloped or unfinished state.Quots. 1872 onwards may represent a secondary development of the phrase, perhaps after German im with infinitive, e.g. im Entstehen. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] to be in making?a1425 to be a-making1492 in the making1644 on the stocks1669 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 31 Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xv. 266 The man was still in the making..and there were both virtues and faults capable of shrinking or expanding. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxiv. 276 His opinion..may be our virtue in the making. 1879 H. Maudsley Pathol. of Mind vi. 282 Evil is good in the making as vice is virtue in the making. 1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat vii. 99 Unless the [newspaper] correspondent has seen history in the making. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness i, in Youth 68 This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making. 1951 R. Harling Paper Palace (1952) 117 The sense of being at the centre of a new world in the making. 1965 K. Amis & R. Conquest Egyptologists 139 A meal..was in the making. 1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 28 May c1/4 She photographed furniture in the making at Howerton Antique Reproductions. e. With a possessive, attributing responsibility to a specified agent, as of ——'s making (in predicative use sometimes with omission of of). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing diting1382 settinga1450 writingc1450 makinga1470 context?a1475 indite1508 inditing?a1513 inditement1567 contexture1603 composal1615 composing1873 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 713 Thus I am slayne..thorow two knyghtes of myne owne bryngynge up and of myne owne makynge. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 102 His creature of his awin making. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a4 I haue sent you such bokes as you wrote for and one moo of Rastels makinge. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. Gloss. Singing a Cantion of Colins making. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋13 [They] doe either make new Translations themselues, or follow new ones of other mens making. 1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 28 'Twas a match of his friends and not his owne making. 1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 12 The Laws of the Church are most Favourable to the Church, because they were the Churches own making. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Cinyras & Myrrha in Fables 175 Man, a Slave of his own making lives. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 44. ⁋3 The Statuary, who fell in Love with the Image of his own making. 1765 J. Otis Vindic. Brit. Colonies 10 Now Magna Carta is but a law of their making, and they may alter it at pleasure. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 278 A poet of Nature's own making. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 15 The only roads were of Nature's making. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xvii. 183 The marriage was not of her making. 1979 Guardian 5 July 9/3 Those men who keep their cool are dragged, willy nilly, into violence not of their making. †2. Poetical composition; versifying. Also in plural: poetical compositions, poems. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry poesyc1390 makinga1393 rhymingc1405 metringc1425 metrificationc1450 versifyingc1450 rhythming1582 poetrya1586 versinga1586 metredom1592 versification1603 the gay science1693 versemanship1762 rhymery1822 bard-craft1840 poeticism1847 poetism1848 poetics1851 poetics1851 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > poems or poems collectively makinga1393 poetryc1395 rhymea1400 poetryc1475 line?1566 numbers1579 harping1819 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 3154 (MED) And thus forthy my final leve I take now for evere more, Withoute makynge any more. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 129 Ffor þis makyng I wille no mede. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. 16 (MED) Þow medlest þe with makynges and myȝtest go sey þi sauter. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 1789 But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie, But subgit be to alle poesye. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 49 (MED) Meruel ȝe not of þis makyng. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 828 I the refreyd tooke, Of hym that was in makyng souerayne, My mayster Chaucier. 1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. v^v Flim flames, and gue gawes,..are soner rapte vp thenne are those which be lettered and Clarkly makings. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie* iii. xix. 200 A noble gentleman, and much delighted in vulgar making. 1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G3^v For, fro thy Makings milke, and mellie flowes To feed the Songster-swaines with Arts soot-meats. 3. Advancement, success. Now only in to be the making of (colloquial): to be what ensures the success or favourable development of (a person or thing). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > ensure prosperity or success of make1460 to be the making ofa1500 to make a man for ever1584 to make (a person) a man1584 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank risinga1393 uprising1430 climbing1487 makinga1500 rise1608 aggrandizement1738 uprise1810 a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 93 (MED) Kynges and vnderstandynge er brether..And vnderstandynge ys þe enchesoun þat puttys yn werk all hys beinges and werkes, ffor it ys his Makynge. a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 731 in Poems (1899) 35 A man to be preferred to honour Of fee or office to his grete makyng. c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 124 Your good and discret answere may be my making. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 215 They [sc. women] are the making or the marring of their house. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 31 A lucky Repartee hit upon by Chance may be the making of a Man. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 241 The fine Gentleman,..who doth so much Honour to his Family, and is to be the Making of it. View more context for this quotation 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlix. 532 If it gets into one of the local papers, it will be the making of me. 1871 S. Smiles Character xi. 324 A wife may be the making or the unmaking of the best of men. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf iii. 27 And mind you, it's for your own soul's sake. It will be the making of you. 1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down 123 I've pestered our news editor into promising that he'll find me space for it..—it might be the making of me. 1986 A. Harding Also Georgiana (1988) x.146 Since I am so soon to be married they are naturally of the opinion that a good match would be the making of my brother! †4. [Compare Middle Dutch mākinge, Dutch makinge (obsolete in this sense).] Testamentary disposition. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] bequestc1300 provingc1330 legacy1485 devise1528 bequesting1572 making1621 bequeathmenta1627 bequeathal1642 bequeathing1674 testing1681 testamentationa1797 willing1797 settlement1815 testation1832 devising1868 1621 Pedigree & Copy of Will (Brasenose Coll. Oxf. Archives) (Hurst Cal. of Munim. 34, Chapel 4) I charge myne executors that the same [money] bee payed according to my makinge. †II. Senses relating to manner or style of composition or construction. 5. a. Bodily form or appearance; build, physique. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [noun] featurec1325 making1340 staturec1380 statea1387 bonea1400 figurec1400 makec1425 corpulence1477 corsage1481 makdom1488 mouldc1550 corporature1555 frame1566 dimension1600 limit1608 set1611 timber1612 compact1646 taille1663 fabric1695 moulding1815 physique1826 tournure1827 build1832 form1849 body type1866 body build1907 somatotype1940 size1985 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 244 Mannes makinge, huet y-zyxt þou foleant uor to zeche diverse guodes to þine zaule and to þine bodye? c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1317 (MED) And þer-withal of brawnys & of bonys, Eueryche of hem of makyng and fasioun Ful wel complete by proporcioun. a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 4545 By his making, He is ful like to my derling. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 217 (MED) He behelde besely the figure and al the makynge of the body and Sayde, ‘Suche a man is lechelorus.’ 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1355/1 Some..esteemed him a man for making well proportioned. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 282 Bigge he was of making, and withall verie tall. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 22 Stigmaticall in making worse in minde. View more context for this quotation ?c1640 Lovely Northerne Lasse iii, in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I. 589 I was so greatly taken with his speech, and with his comely making. b. An edition or version of a book. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] makinga1382 text1870 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. Prol. 1 Masloch, that..the comun making [L. vulgata editio] Prouerbis clepeth. 1482 W. Caxton Higden's Polychron. Prohemye Polychronicon..emprynted & sette in forme by me William Caxton and a lytel embelysshed fro tholde makyng. c. gen. The way in which a thing is made; style of construction; conformation, form, shape, build. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] hue971 shapec1050 form1297 casta1300 entailc1320 fashionc1320 featurec1325 tailc1325 suitc1330 figuringc1385 figure1393 makinga1398 fasurec1400 facea1402 makec1425 proportionc1425 figuration?a1475 protracture1551 physiognomy1567 set1567 portraiturea1578 imagerya1592 model1597 plasmature1610 figurature1642 scheme1655 morphosis1675 turn1675 plasma1712 mould1725 format1936 the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > style of creation or construction shaft888 suitc1330 generationa1382 makinga1398 frame?1520 workmanship1578 imagerya1592 model1597 fabricaturec1600 builtc1615 fabric1644 module1649 get-up1857 fashioning1870 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > of construction or composition shaft888 makea1325 suitc1330 makinga1398 mark1482 inventiona1513 workmanship1578 cut1590 model1597 mould1667 fashioning1870 Mk.1921 the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > style of creation or construction > of manufactured things makea1325 makinga1398 model1597 build1667 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 269 Suche manere of fisshes beþ yliche to serpentes in makynge. 1466 Contract 25 June in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 93 The same dores and wyndowes shalbe like of strength and makyng of the dores and wyndowes of the other new scoles. 1494 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 323 A newe mete-cloth of Lankeshire making. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. i There be plowes of dyuers makynges in dyuers countreis. 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1304/1 That oyntment truly made was veri costly: which was the cause that the true making was lesse vsed. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 9774 I..am febiller..þen þe fre prinse, Both of myght, & of makyng, & of mayn strenkith. 1599 J. Lok in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 103 In colour, eating, and making like a Makarell. 1642 J. Shirley Sisters (1652) v. i. 49 I see the greatest men are flesh And blood, our souls are much upon a making. 1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 54 There are erected..[nine] hansome Crosses of stone; all of a making. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4. Sched. at Buckrams Buckrams of French making. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 263 Another sort of insect of a making much like a Spider. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. 45 A general and particular Description, Making, and Use of all the..Instruments. d. Mental or moral character; = make n.² 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] heartOE erda1000 moodOE i-mindOE i-cundeOE costc1175 lundc1175 evena1200 kinda1225 custc1275 couragec1300 the manner ofc1300 qualityc1300 talentc1330 attemperancec1374 complexionc1386 dispositiona1387 propertyc1390 naturea1393 assay1393 inclinationa1398 gentlenessa1400 proprietya1400 habitudec1400 makingc1400 conditionc1405 habitc1405 conceitc1425 affecta1460 ingeny1477 engine1488 stomach?1510 mind?a1513 ingine1533 affection1534 vein1536 humour?1563 natural1564 facultyc1565 concept1566 frame1567 temperature1583 geniusa1586 bent1587 constitution1589 composition1597 character1600 tune1600 qualification1602 infusion1604 spirits1604 dispose1609 selfness1611 disposure1613 composurea1616 racea1616 tempera1616 crasisc1616 directiona1639 grain1641 turn1647 complexure1648 genie1653 make1674 personality1710 tonea1751 bearing1795 liver1800 make-up1821 temperament1821 naturalness1850 selfhood1854 Wesen1854 naturel1856 sit1857 fibre1864 character structure1873 mentality1895 mindset1909 psyche1910 where it's (he's, she's) at1967 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > moral tendency or way of thinking makingc1400 manners1589 way of thinking1650 make1674 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Digby) (1873) C. xiv. 193 Makynge [Huntington Man, as in mankynde, His [read Is] most yliche þe in wit and in werkes]. a1450 (a1400) Feast of Corpus Christi (Bodl.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 310 (MED) More is þe vertewȝ þat is of blessing þan is þe strengþe of any making, ffor þorwȝ blessing kinde is ofte forlore. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 44 William Earl of Pembroke was next, a man of another mould, and making. III. Concrete senses. 6. a. Something that has been made; †a created thing, a creature (obsolete); a product of manufacture. Now chiefly: the quantity made at one time. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > that which is created creaturec1300 making1340 feature1483 facturea1500 sublunar1613 sublunary1625 subcelestial1652 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > manufactured article or product workOE making1340 manufacture1587 preparation1590 manufactory1653 manufact1664 manufacturage1665 fabric1753 end-product1939 run-off1952 the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a definite or specified quantity or amount > specific quantities or amounts > produced or obtained > at one time making1644 batch1713 lot1884 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 92 Þet body of man is þe meste poure makynge and þe vileste þet is. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxlii. 5 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 268 (MED) In makinges þat þou has wroghte Ofe þine hende i wele bithoghte. a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 912 (MED) And harde hyt was for to deuyse The curyous makynge þat þer-on was. 1644 in S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands (1822) 594 You did thereby marr and undo twa whole makings of the said bear, qlk never did good. 1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 250 The shape beheld he would grant to be a making in the beholder's own brain; but the facient, he would contend, was a several and other subject. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 139 Whatever quantity is required for any particular job of work should be made all at one time; no two makings coming away alike, but depending entirely upon accident. 1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Making,..2. What has been made, especially at one time; as, the whole making is before you. 1890 Century Dict. (at cited word) A making of bread. 1974 Author Spring 39/2 Whereas it was, until recently, possible to get a making of paper in ten days, a publisher now has to wait more than ten weeks for an ordinary grade. 1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin xii. 116 One ‘making’ of broth..could go on so long you could imagine that you would never see the end of it. b. colloquial. In plural. Earnings, profits. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] earningeOE issuea1325 lucrec1380 lucre of gainc1386 return1419 feracityc1420 revenue1427 vantagec1430 afframing1440 revenue1440 availc1449 proventc1451 provenuec1487 rent1513 fardel1523 chevisance1535 gains1546 commodity1577 proceed1578 increasal1601 benefit1606 endowment1615 gaininga1631 superlucration1683 profit1697 bunce1706 making1837 bunt1851 plunder1851 yield1877 recovery1931 earner1970 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 122 That a wife shall possess half, or a large part, of her husband's earnings or makings. 1892 Cassell's Sat. Jrnl. 21 Sept. 13/3 My makings in the way of tips bringing in on an average about twice that sum. 1900 Daily News 10 Feb. 2/4 ‘Makings’, in the way of tips, had been very poor. 7. a. The material out of which something may be made; the potentiality of becoming something. Later also in plural: the materials, equipment, etc., required for making something; ingredients. Usually with of, esp. in to have (also be) the making(s) of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > be capable of [verb (transitive)] > of becoming to have (also be) the making(s) of1623 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [noun] possea1592 making1623 potentiality1625 potentialness1668 existibility1677 pregnancy1818 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > material matter1340 substancec1350 subject matter1535 making1623 material1624 substratuma1676 materiality1811 hypostase1867 materiature1881 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. i. 87 She had all the Royall makings of a Queene. View more context for this quotation 1827 G. Griffin Tales Munster Festivals III. 89 I wisht you went to the cup-board an brought us the makens of a jug o' punch. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxvi. 398 He seemed to have the makings of a very nice fellow about him. 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iii. 17 There was the making of a good rider in many of them. 1861 W. H. Russell in Times 24 Sept. They are not an army, but they are the making, as we say, of a splendid one. 1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won ii. 16 There was possibly the makings of a great cross-country horse in her. 1918 ‘B. MacNamara’ Valley of Squinting Windows 4 And I standing in the presence of the makings of a priest! 1950 Canad. Home Jrnl. Jan. 24 The cake-mix... The package which would yield the principal makings for a good cake. a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 154 He hasn't even got the makings. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 55/1 Phoebe Snow is not yet a mature artist. Though the makings are nowhere more evident than on her third album. 1987 S. Barr & J. Poppy Flame iii. 40 Here it wasn't even lunchtime and we already had the making of slapstick. b. In plural. colloquial (originally U.S.). Paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > tobacco and paper for rolling makings1895 cigarette-paper- 1895 J. London in Oakland (Calif.) High School Aegis 4 Nov. in R. W. Etulain Jack London on Road (1979) 65 Hello ye stiffs!—got the makin's? I got ter smoke so bad I can taste it. 1905 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Dec. 817/1 He took out his ‘makings’ and rolled a cigarette. 1912 Collier's 21 Dec. 23/2 A revelation to any man who doesn't know a real ‘makin's’ cigarette. 1930 J. Devanny Bushman Burke 26 He grinned and took out the ‘makings’. 1949 S. P. Llewellyn Troopships 7 The normal Kiwi..his clothes in a heap beside him, the ‘makings’ handy. 1963 H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 30 I gave McKinnon enough money to get me a package of makings. 1978 T. O'Brien Going after Cacciato i. 9 Oscar Johnson took out his pouch of makings, rolled a joint. 8. In plural. Coal Mining. Material hewed out in holing (see quots.). ΚΠ 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 36 Makings, the small coals hewed out in kirving. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Makings, the slack and dirt made in holing. Compounds C1. making-cylinder n. (in a cylinder paper-machine) the cylinder on which the pulp is felted into a sheet or web (distinguished from the beating cylinder and the drying cylinder). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1376/2 The web of pulp is taken from the making-cylinder. making-felt n. (in a cylinder paper-machine) the felt on which the web of pulp is taken from the making-cylinder. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1376/2 Making-felt (Paper), that felt of a cylinder paper-machine on which the web of pulp is taken from the making-cylinder. making-iron n. Shipbuilding a kind of grooved chisel used by caulkers to drive oakum into ships' seams; cf. meaking iron n. ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Calfat double, a making-iron. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1376/2 Making-iron, a large calking-iron with grooves lengthways of its face, used for the final driving of oakum into the seams. C2. a. With following adverb or adjective, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs (see make v.¹). (a) making good n. ΚΠ 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. viii. 180 For the manning and making good of that Citie. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. vii. 34 Art thou sure, that the making good of such a vow, will not totally bankrupt thee? 1821 J. Severn Let. 12 Jan. in J. Keats Lett. (1958) II. 368 All the walls must be scraped—and those devils will come upon me for 100£ or 150£—the making good. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1386 All making good as it is technically called—i.e. patching up holes in old plastering—used to be done with plaster. 1965 I. H. Seeley Building Quantities Explained ix. 140 Note the making good of plaster around ventilators, etc., is classified according to size. 2012 Constit. Polit. Econ. 23 210 A cardinal principle of contractual obligation is the keeping of promises or the making good on failures to keep promises. making ready n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] yarkingc1000 forgraithinga1300 apparellingc1315 ordinancec1330 purveyancec1330 graithinga1340 purveying1340 providencea1382 making readyc1384 preparationa1393 paring1393 provisiona1398 parelc1425 apparelc1430 parelling?a1440 ablingc1450 munition1480 preparing1497 arraya1500 readyinga1500 repurveancea1500 ordaining1509 apparation1533 preparementa1538 apprest1539 preparaturea1540 preparance1543 order1545 apparance1546 prepare1548 fore-preparationa1586 ettlingc1600 apparelment1607 parationa1617 comparation1623 address1633 apparatus1638 prep1920 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John xix. 14 It was the makinge redy, or euyn of pask. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 4 Kings vi. 23 Greet makyng redi of metis was set forth to hem, and thei eten and drunken. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Makyng redy, parure. 1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 73 Stereotyping... One man, and sometimes two, are engaged in what is technically called making ready. 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 295/2 Making Ready—the act of getting a form ready to be printed;..Making ready may be said to form the chief portion of the pressman's duty. 1909 H. Hart in Let. To a printer the difference between a ‘pull’ and a ‘finished impression’ is, that the one has no preliminary making-ready, and the other has. making-off n. ΚΠ 1815 J. Laing Voy. Spitzbergen (1822) 99 The process of paring and barrelling up the blubber, is termed making off. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Flensing The blubber..is cut into square pieces and stowed in the hold; afterwards, these are..cut into smaller pieces to be stowed away in casks; this latter process is termed making-off. 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 286 Paring and barreling blubber, termed making-off. (b) making-out n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] > understanding, comprehension knowing1340 taking1395 apprehending1398 feela1400 conceitc1405 perceitc1460 comprehension?15.. intellection?1526 apprension1589 making-outa1601 reception1612 uptaking1614 perceivancy1649 comprehending1668 recognition1749 prehension1836 prension1837 wavelength1925 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] playOE loveOE toucha1400 chamber workc1450 venery1497 bed-glee1582 bed-game1596 fiddling1622 twatting1893 sexual relations1897 fun time1905 massage1906 sex play1922 actionc1930 hanky-panky1939 making-out1957 lumber1966 a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 67 The Chancellour had the keeping of the Rolles of Record, and the making out of Writs originall. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 118 For the better making out of which, we are to bethink our selves, that [etc.]. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 181 Half the chiaroscuro is totally destroyed by the haggling, blackening, and ‘making out’ of the engravers. 1957 F. Kohner Gidget vii. 76 ‘No sweaty hands, no making out in drive-in movies.’ ‘Making out?’ ‘My God, Larry, where've you been living. I guess you still call it necking.’ 1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 76/2 Back in junior high Diane was constantly fantasizing about sex...When she finally got around to making out, she didn't make out so well. making-over n. ΚΠ 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 129 We shall find that begetting the like, is making over of springs. 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xvii. 133 Even now, had it been practicable, she would have made over to him..all her interest in the Vavasor estate. But any such making over was impossible. 1970 E. Bruton Diamonds xi. 202 Top quality diamonds are given a final check visually and ‘repair’ work, known as making-over, carried out if necessary. 1988 Times 8 Aug. 15/1 Making-over is a primal human urge. b. making-as-if n. pretence, make-believe.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 3 May 273/2 That ordinary and vulgar state-cunning,—that wretched making-as-if. making-merry n. rare = merrymaking n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] mirthOE joyc1275 jollitya1300 joy-makingc1330 good fellowship?c1430 wine and womena1450 junketing1555 merrymake1579 gaiety1612 jovialty1621 joviality1626 mirth-making1638 jovialness1658 jollitry?c1685 goodfellowhood1716 merrymaking1779 conviviality1791 jollification1818 making-merry1823 carnivalizing1841 skite1869 Wein, Weib, und Gesang1885 balling1942 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. iii^. 60 A making-merry in the house of Tirzah. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † makingn.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: make v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < make v.² + -ing suffix¹. Obsolete. Mating, matchmaking. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] making1608 matchmakinga1627 flesh-brokerya1643 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one* iii. sig. E2^v My Vncle comes with Gentlemen his friends, and tis vpon a making. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2018). makingadj. Brit. /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/ Forms: see make v.¹ and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: make v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < make v.¹ + -ing suffix². 1. That makes (make v.¹); †productive, creative (obsolete); †moneymaking, prosperous (obsolete). (Now chiefly as in sense 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming shaping1398 making1434 naturing1605 essentiating1635 nature naturant1635 fashioning1674 originary1755 fingent1837 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] making1434 quaestuary1581 lucratory1646 money-making1740 chrematistic1752 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 126 With swetnes of þe godhede & warmnes of Makand lyght. 1584 D. Fenner Artes of Logike & Rethorike ii. 147 The making cause is a cause which by setting the matter & forme togither, maketh the thing caused. 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §46 A Instruments..of their effects be either constitutiue and making, or remissorie and liberatorie. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 174 You are an industrious and a making young man. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 31 When artificial magnets are made by rubbing, each pole in the making magnet, begets its sympathetic pole of a different name in the newly made magnet. 1903 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 8/6 Artificial Florist.—Wanted a good making forewoman. 1958 Times 20 Dec. 3/4 On a making tide bass can be caught by spinning from the beaches. 2. As the second element in compounds forming adjectives (for the more established terms see the first word). a. With prefixed adjectives (and subsequently also verbs), in the sense ‘that makes (one) ——’, as blush-, happy-, sick-making, etc.After occasional use in the 17th cent., perhaps sometimes in conscious opposition to analogous terms in -ific, new formations in this sense ceased until it was revived in the slang of some upper-class London circles in the 1920s (notably as depicted by Evelyn Waugh in his 1930 novel Vile Bodies), since when it has been periodically fashionable. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L3 Borne so neere the dull making Cataphract of Nilus, that you cannot heare the Plannet-like Musick of Poetrie. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E^v Mad-making waters, sex trans-forming springs. 1645 J. Milton On Time in Poems 20 Him, t'whose happy-making sight..When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall clime. 1924 Spectator 12 Apr. 604/1 Otherwise we should have been spared those blush-making passages. 1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies x. 195 A really good story my second day on the paper. This ought to do me good with the Excess—very rich-making. 1954 J. Masters Bhowani Junction xxxii. 278 Life was quite too wearing and coarse-making. 1971 R. Allen Suedehead viii. 64 She sipped her randy-making drink again, face slightly flushed already. 1981 R. Manheim tr. G. Grass Meeting at Telgte ii. 13 Sleep-banishing, sleepy-making worries. b. With prefixed nouns, in the sense ‘that makes ——’, as in law-, mischief-, peace-making, etc. (Sometimes not clearly distinguishable from the equivalent noun used attributively.) ΚΠ 1599 Warning for Faire Women i. 355 These errand-making gallants are good men, That cannot pass, and see a woman sit..But they will find a 'scuse to stand and prate. 1680 R. Baxter Moral Prognostication ii. 39 He will call together the wise, peace-making Persons. 1717 N. Rowe Poems in Wks. (1728) I. 79 That Tyburn-Tribe of speech-making Non-jurors. 1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 66 That thou wert..exhibited to public scorn, by any innuendo-making Attorney-General. 1833 Niles' Reg. 44 148/1 Very few persons questioned the right of congress to lay an embargo, under the war-making power. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 30/2 The stuff which even the shoddy-making devil rejects, is packed off to the agricultural districts for use as manure. 1891 Miss Potter in Daily News 18 July 5/1 The upper and middle-class..demand the servility of the profit-making traders. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 592 Rown's theory that the internal trigger-pulling stimulus of the migratory activity is to be found in the reproductive organs, and particularly in their endocrinal or hormone-making tissue. 1991 Investors Chron. 26 July 9/1 Usually when a company sells off trading assets in a recession it is to unlock the cash tied up in them—or to unburden itself of a loss-making subsidiary. 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