To regard as, consider, or compute to be; to describe or represent as; to cause to appear as. Cf… transitive. To pretend, to feign (esp. to do…

to make wise (see make, v.1 55): to behave as if one were ‘wise’ about a matter; to pretend, ‘make as if…’ Obsolete exc. dialect.

intransitive. to make as if (also make as though, archaic. make as): to behave or act as if; to pretend that; to act as if with the intention to. Cf…

Followed by as though, as if, that; To act so as to cause an expectation or belief; to pretend. Also to let fare. Obsolete.

To make a pretence of (doing something); to give a false or misleading impression of; (occasionally) to make a half-hearted beginning or attempt…

to set one'sor the face (countenance): to give a fixed or settled expression to the countenance.

transitive. With clause as object: to affect, feign, pretend. Obsolete.

†with full mien (obsolete): undisguised. †to make good mien upon (obsolete): to put a good face on. †to make (a) mien (obsolete): to pretend to do…

transitive. With object and infinitive: to cause (a person or thing) to do something. intransitive. to make believe: †(a) to cause people to…

transitive. colloquial. To affect, feign, pretend. Also with clause as object. Cf. sense 2a(b), and put-on, adj. 1.

Phrases: †to catch, hunt the fox: to get drunk. to flay the fox: see flay, v. 6.to play (the) fox: (a) to act cunningly, (b) to sham. †to smell a fox…