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To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] Chaucer. Tennyson. To solace him some time, as I do when I make. P. Plowman. To make as if, or To make as though, to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.). Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled…

Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.

Tameness; gentleness; mildness. [Archaic]

Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor. [Archaic] Milton. Tennyson.

The metallic element iron, the symbol of which was the same as that of the planet Mars. [Archaic] Chaucer. Mars brown, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown.

Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. [Archaic] Martial flowers (Med.), a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. [Obs.] -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it has superseded the civil authority in time of war, or wh…

o them. Locke. To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] Shak.

The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. [Archaic.] Longfellow.

To put in mind; to remind. [Archaic] M. Arnold. He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things. Fuller. I do thee wrong to mind thee of it. Shak. Never mind, do not regard it; it is of no consequence; no matter.

Dark; gloomy; murky. [Archaic] Spenser. -- Mirk"some*ness, n. [Archaic]

Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller. The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.

To admonish; to warn. See Admonish. [Archaic] Ascham.

One who monishes; an admonisher. [Archaic]

Admonition. [Archaic]

Many in number. [Archaic] Edom came out against him with much people. Num. xx. 20.

Darkness; mirk. [Archaic] Shak.

Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. [Archaic or Poetic] The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.

A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. [Archaic]

Nevertheless. [Archaic] Chaucer. Milton. E. Arnold.