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cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. -- To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose. -- To make danger, to make experiment. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- To make default (Law), to fail to appear or answer. -- To make the doors, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will ou…

at personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family. My manors, rents, revenues, l forego. Shak.

Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage. [Obs. or Scots Law] Jamieson.

third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

To render warlike; as, to martialize a people.

To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render maudlin. [Obs.]

That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense. A rosy garland was the victor's meed. Spenser.

To render fit. [R.]

Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. Shak. For pity melts the mind to love. Dryden.

fants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.

as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] Howell.

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.