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on. -- To get the best of, to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. -- To make the best of. (a) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advantage. "Let there be freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inc…

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

To make still.

unt loved him well, and betted much money on his head. Shak. I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. O. W. Holmes.

ate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. Willing to serve or betray any government for hire. Macaulay.

e than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air. Could make the worse appear The better reason. Milton.

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.

To make wintry. [Obs.]

One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith.

To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

To make or become big; to enlarge. [Obs. or Dial.] Steele.

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

To make bitter. Wolcott.

To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. J. Fletcher.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell.