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One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

One who makes an affidavit. [U. S.] Burrill.

That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.

To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; esp. (Law),

To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. Jer. Taylor.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.

Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

One who aggrandizes, or makes great.

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] "To aggravate thy store." Shak.

Taken together; collective.

To make heavy; to aggravate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.