D defs.my
Entry 5 senses Webster, 1913

Making

/māk'-ĭng/ · Mak·ing · IPA /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
01 n. 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 h…
  1. 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. 2.
    Composition, or structure.
  3. 3.
    a poem.[Obs.]
  4. 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. 5.
    External appearance; from.[Obs.]