What does "making" mean?

Making: Composition, or structure.

Additional senses

  1. 2.a poem.[Obs.] Sir J. Davies.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.External appearance; from. [Obs.] Shak.

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