Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Making

Making , noun

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.
Composition, or structure.
3.
a poem. [Obsolete] — Sir J. Davies
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.
External appearance; from. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare