subs. (colloquial).—1.  Material for anything.

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  1836.  DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, xxxvii. 324. He seemed to have the MAKINGS of a very nice fellow about him.

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  1858.  Fraser’s Magazine, Aug., 226, ‘Concerning a Great Scotch Preacher.’ Men who have in them the MAKINGS of better preachers.

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  1876.  G. ELIOT, Daniel Deronda, Bk. II. ch. xvi. ‘You’ve not the MAKINGS of a Porson in you, or a Leibnitz either.’

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  1885.  World, 1 April, p. 18, col. 2. If I mistake not, he has the MAKINGS of a first-class steeplechaser about him.

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  2.  (common).—(1) Profits; (2) earnings. Fr. le jus.

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  1892.  Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 21 Sept., p. 13, col. 3. Of course my MAKINGS varied considerably, and to some extent depended on the success of my particular patrons at batting in the college matches.

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