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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.

sages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. Shak. Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. Tennyson.

ance, Savoy, and Switzerland. Fuller. Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles. Tennyson.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

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

hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. Nash. Plumes that micked the may. Tennyson.

speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

A mêlée; a conflict. Tennyson.

A pool or lake. Drayton. Tennyson.

er. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.

Composition in metrical form; versification. [R.] Tennyson.

chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. [Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.

Want of faith; distrust. "[Anger] born of your misfaith." Tennyson.

A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition." Tennyson.

A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.

ry Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air. "Moted sunbeams." Tennyson.

ly sonorous manner. "Mouthing big phrases." Hare. Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. Tennyson.

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