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One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures. Swift.

One who make charts or maps.

An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.

To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. An angel carved in stone. Tennyson. We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. C. Wolfe.

A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier,…

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious! South.

To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.

A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.

To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. Coleridge.

bishop; official; authoritative. Now, what solemnity can be more required for the pope to make a cathedral determination of an article! Jer. Taylor.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

To make into caudle.

and without which it would not exist. Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. Locke.

To make hollow; to scoop out. [Obs.] The mouldred earth cav'd the banke. Spenser.

To make celestial. [R.]

To make like heaven. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times. [R.] Howell.

One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. Packard.

Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. To make her certain of the sad event. Dryden. I myself am certain of you. Wyclif.