"make fair weather" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: makes fair weather [present, singular, third-person], making fair weather [participle, present], made fair weather [participle, past], made fair weather [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,made>}} make fair weather (third-person singular simple present makes fair weather, present participle making fair weather, simple past and past participle made fair weather)
  1. (archaic) To conciliate; to flatter. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-make_fair_weather-en-verb-hjdYxGN~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: jolly, lay it on thick, puff, brush up to [archaic, slang], collogue, flatter, flatterize [nonstandard], glaver [obsolete], gloze, jolly [archaic], lay it on thick [idiomatic], make fair weather [archaic], palaver, puff, soothe, stroke [figuratively, obsolete], tickle the ear [idiomatic]

Inflected forms

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