To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tell, truth.
Used to positively assert the frank honesty of an associated statement of set of statements; equivalent to "to tell the truth".