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a mate; often, a husband or a wife. [Obs.] For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.

Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.

A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.

rsonating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.

One who excites contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]

Made. Chaucer.

Matchless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator. The universal Maker we may praise. Milton.

That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

One who makes beds.

A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.

One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.

One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.

One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.