Making

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Composition, or structure.

II. Making ·noun External appearance; from.

III. Making ·noun a Poem.

IV. Making ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Make.

V. Making ·noun The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.

VI. Making ·noun That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.

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