Mak"ing (?), n.
1. 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.
2. Composition, or structure.
3. a poem. [Obs.]
Sir J. Davies.
4. 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.
5. External appearance; from. [Obs.] Shak.
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