Be assured; be certain. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, no, mistake.

(obsolete, chiefly in the negative) To intrude oneself into another person's concerns.

(nautical) To extend an additional quantity of sail (i.e. to spread a sail or sails). / (figuratively) To embark; start a voyage.

(idiomatic) To take action. / (idiomatic, chiefly UK and India) To depart from a place; to set off.

(law) To fail to appear or answer.

(horseracing) To lay bets (recorded in a pocketbook) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses.

(transitive) To belittle. / (transitive) To accomplish easily.

(colloquial, US, especially Western US) To cure meat in the open air.

plural of make-and-break

(US, dialect, intransitive) To succeed; to overcome obstacles.