'To make love to' definitions:
Definition of 'To make love to'
From: GCIDE
- Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See Lief.]
- 1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. [1913 Webster]
- Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. [1913 Webster]
- He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. [1913 Webster]
- Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object. [1913 Webster]
- Love, and health to all. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Smit with the love of sacred song. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The love of science faintly warmed his breast. --Fenton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Due gratitude and reverence to God. [1913 Webster]
- Keep yourselves in the love of God. --Jude 21. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading. "Trust me, love." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Open the temple gates unto my love. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus. [1913 Webster]
- Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.] --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Bot.) A climbing species of Clematis ({Clematis Vitalba}). [1913 Webster]
- 10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc. [1913 Webster]
- He won the match by three sets to love. --The Field. [1913 Webster]
- 11. Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism. [PJC]
- Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked, love-taught, etc. [1913 Webster]
- A labor of love, a labor undertaken on account of regard for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward.
- Free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See Free love.
- Free lover, one who avows or practices free love.
- In love, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love.
- Love apple (Bot.), the tomato.
- Love bird (Zool.), any one of several species of small, short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus Agapornis, and allied genera. They are mostly from Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are celebrated for the affection which they show for their mates.
- Love broker, a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak.
- Love charm, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton.
- Love child. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen.
- Love day, a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Chaucer.
- Love drink, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer.
- Love favor, something given to be worn in token of love.
- Love feast, a religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agap[ae] of the early Christians.
- Love feat, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak.
- Love game, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished person or party does not score a point.
- Love grass. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus Eragrostis.
- Love-in-a-mist. (Bot.) (a) An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts. (b) The West Indian Passiflora f[oe]tida, which has similar bracts.
- Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy. [1913 Webster]
- A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness. --Shak.
- Love juice, juice of a plant supposed to produce love. --Shak.
- Love knot, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection. --Milman.
- Love lass, a sweetheart.
- Love letter, a letter of courtship. --Shak.
- Love-lies-bleeding (Bot.), a species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
- Love match, a marriage brought about by love alone.
- Love potion, a compounded draught intended to excite love, or venereal desire.
- Love rites, sexual intercourse. --Pope
- Love scene, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the stage.
- Love suit, courtship. --Shak.
- Of all loves, for the sake of all love; by all means. [Obs.] "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again." --Holinshed.
- The god of love, or The Love god, Cupid.
- To make love, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.
- To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. "If you will marry, make your loves to me." --Shak.
- To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. "A game at piquet for love." --Lamb. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'To make love to'
From: GCIDE
- make \make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. made (m[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. making.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak?n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. Match an equal.]
- 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. [1913 Webster]
- He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. [1913 Webster] (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. [1913 Webster]
- And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] (c) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. [1913 Webster]
- Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. [1913 Webster]
- I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) 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. [1913 Webster]
- He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (f) 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. (h) To put in a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. [1913 Webster]
- Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. [1913 Webster]
- See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. [1913 Webster]
- He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. [1913 Webster]
- I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. [1913 Webster]
- They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 5. 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. [1913 Webster]
- And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham makes a hearty meal. [1913 Webster]
- The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "And make the Libyan shores." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- To make a bed, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order.
- To make a card (Card Playing), to take a trick with it.
- To make account. See under Account, n.
- To make account of, to esteem; to regard.
- To make away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. [1913 Webster] (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller.
- To make believe, to pretend; to feign; to simulate.
- To make bold, to take the liberty; to venture.
- To make the cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack.
- To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose.
- To make danger, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
- To make default (Law), to fail to appear or answer.
- To make the doors, to shut the door. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To make free with. See under Free, a.
- To make good. See under Good.
- To make head, to make headway.
- To make light of. See under Light, a.
- To make little of. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily.
- To make love to. See under Love, n.
- To make meat, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.]
- To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.
- To make much of, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly.
- To make no bones. See under Bone, n.
- To make no difference, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference.
- To make no doubt, to have no doubt.
- To make no matter, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference.
- To make oath (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law.
- To make of. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. "Makes she no more of me than of a slave." --Dryden.
- To make one's law (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge.
- To make out. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) to gain sight of; to recognize; to discern; to descry; as, as they approached the city, he could make out the tower of the Chrysler Building. (c) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (d) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. (d) to write out; to write down; -- used especially of a bank check or bill; as, he made out a check for the cost of the dinner; the workman made out a bill and handed it to him.
- To make over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee.
- To make sail. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail.
- To make shift, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.].
- To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward.
- To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion.
- To make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court.
- To make sure. See under Sure.
- To make up. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. [1913 Webster]
- He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. [1913 Webster] (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up.
- To make up a face, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision.
- To make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve.
- To make way, or To make one's way. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way.
- To make words, to multiply words. [1913 Webster]