The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.
Composition, or structure.
a poem.[Obs.] Sir J. Davies.
That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.
External appearance; from. [Obs.] Shak.
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