MPage 24
- English Word Majority Definition The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
- English Word Majority Definition The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
- English Word Majority Definition Ancestors; ancestry.
- English Word Majority Definition The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.
- English Word Majorship Definition The office of major.
- English Word Majoun Definition See Madjoun.
- English Word Majusculae Definition Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.
- English Word Majuscule Definition A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculae.
- English Word Makable Definition Capable of being made.
- English Word Makaron Definition See Macaroon, 2.
- English Word Make Definition A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
- English Word Make Definition To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.
- English Word Make Definition To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
- English Word Make Definition To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
- English Word Make Definition To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
- English Word Make Definition To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
- English Word Make Definition To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.
- English Word Make Definition To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.
- English Word Make Definition To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
- English Word Make Definition To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.
- English Word Make Definition To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.
- English Word Make Definition To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
- English Word Make Definition To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
- English Word Make Definition To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.
- English Word Make Definition To be engaged or concerned in.
- English Word Make Definition To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.
- English Word Make Definition To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.
- English Word Make Definition To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
- English Word Make Definition To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.
- English Word Make Definition To increase; to augment; to accrue.