Chapter 311

And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Shak.

Compost <Xpage=292>

Com"post , v. t. 1. To manure with compost.

2. To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.

Composture <Xpage=292>

Com*pos"ture (?; 135) , n. [L. compositura , -postura , a joining.] Manure; compost. [Obs.]

Shak.

Composure <Xpage=292>

Com*po"sure (?) , n. [From Compose .] 1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. [Obs.]

Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching. Evelyn.

2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. [Obs.]

Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. Woodward.

3. Frame; make; temperament. [Obs.]

His composure must be rare indeed Whom these things can not blemish. Shak.

4. A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose. "We seek peace and composure ."

Milton.

When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure . I. Watts.

5. A combination; a union; a bond. [Obs.]

Shak.

Compotation <Xpage=292>

Com`po*ta"tion (?) , n. [L. compotatio ; com- + potare to drink.] The act of drinking or tippling together. [R.]

The fashion of compotation . Sir W. Scott.

Compotator <Xpage=292>

Com"po*ta`tor (?) , n. [L.] One who drinks with another. [R.]

Pope.

Compote <Xpage=292>

Com"pote (?) , n. [F. See Compost .] A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears .

Littr<?/.

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Compound <Xpage=292>

Com"pound (?) , n. [Malay kompund a village.] In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

Compound <Xpage=292>

Com*pound" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compounded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Compounding .] [OE. componen , compounen , L. componere , compositum ; com- + ponere to put set. The d is excrescent. See Position , and cf. Compon\'82 .] 1. To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine .

Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.

2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. Addison.

3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

Only compound me with forgotten dust. Shak.

4. To compose; to constitute. [Obs.]

His pomp and all what state compounds . Shak.

5. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt .

I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak.

To compound a felony , to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote .

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Com*pound" , v. i. To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration .

Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year. Shak.

They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon.

Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew.

Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.

Compound <Xpage=292>

Com"pound (?) , a. [OE. compouned , p. p. of compounen . See Compound , v. t. ] Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word .

Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. I. Watts.

Compound addition , substraction , multiplication , division (Arith.) , the addition, substraction, etc., of compound numbers. -- Compound crystal (Crystallog.) , a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined according to regular laws of composition. -- Compound engine (Mech.) , a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively. -- Compound ether . (Chem.) See under Ether . -- Compound flower (Bot.) , a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion. -- Compound fraction . (Math.) See Fraction . -- Compound fracture . See Fracture . -- Compound householder , a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [Eng.] -- Compound interest . See Interest . -- Compound larceny . (Law) See Larceny . -- Compound leaf (Bot.) , a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk. -- Compound microscope . See Microscope . -- Compound motion . See Motion . -- Compound number (Math.) , one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt. , 1 qr. , 5 lb. ; -- called also denominate number . -- Compound pier (Arch.) , a clustered column. -- Compound quantity (Alg.) , a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c , and bb - b , are compound quantities. -- Compound radical . (Chem.) See Radical . -- Compound ratio (Math.) , the product of two or more ratios; thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d . -- Compound rest (Mech.) , the tool carriage of an engine lathe. -- Compound screw (Mech.) , a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). -- Compound time (Mus.) , that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8 time. -- Compound word , a word composed of two or more words; specifically, two or more words joined together by a hyphen.

Compound <Xpage=292>

Com"pound , n. 1. That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.

Shak.

Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith.

When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound . Earle.

2. (Chem.) A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen .

&hand; Every definite chemical compound always contains the same elements, united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same internal arrangement.

Binary compound (Chem.) . See under Binary . -- Carbon compounds (Chem.) . See under Carbon .

Compoundable <Xpage=292>

Com*pound"a*ble (?) , a. That may be compounded.

Compounder <Xpage=292>

Com*pound"er (?) , n. 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines .

2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises. " Compounder in politics."

Burke.

3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.

Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders. Hudibras.

4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [Eng.]

A. Wood.

5. (Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

Comprador <Xpage=292>

Com`pra*dor (?) , n. [Pg., a buyer.] A kind of steward or agent. [China]

S. W. Williams

Comprecation <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*ca"tion (?) , n. [L. comprecatio , fr. comprecari to pray to. See Precarious .] A praying together. [Obs.]

Bp. Wilkins.

Comprehend <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hend" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Comprehended ; p. pr. & vb. n. Comprehending .] [L. comprehendere , comprehensum ; com- + prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in comp.). See Get , and cf. Comprise .] 1. To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire .

Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is. xl. 12.

2. To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.

Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion. Hobbes.

And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying. Rom. xiii. 9.

3. To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.

At a loss to comprehend the question. W. Irwing.

Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend . Job. xxxvii. 5.

Syn. -- To contain; include; embrace; comprise; inclose; grasp; embody; involve; imply; apprehend; imagine; conceive; understand. See Apprehend .

Comprehensibility <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen`si*bil"i*ty (?) , n. The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

Comprehensible <Xpage=292>

Com"pre*hen"si*ble (?) , a. [L. comprehensibilis : cf. F. compre\'82hensible .] 1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.

Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon.

2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.

The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. Locke.

Comprehensibleness <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen"si*ble*ness , n. The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.

Comprehensibly <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen"si*bly , adv. 1. With great extent of signification; comprehensively.

Tillotson.

2. Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.

Comprehension <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen"sion (?) , n. [L. comprehensio : cf. F. compr\'82hension .] 1. The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.

In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker.

2. That which is comrehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome. [Obs.]

Though not a catalogue of fundamentals, yet . . . a comprehension of them. Chillingworth.

3. The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles .

4. (Logic) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.

5. (Rhet.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

Comprehensive <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen"sive (?) , a. [Cf. F. compr\'82hensif .] 1. Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.

A very comprehensive definition. Bentley.

Large and comprehensive idea. Channing.

2. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things. "His comprehensive head."

Pope.

3. (Zo\'94l.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.

&hand; The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups which have a combination of structures that appear in more fully developed or specialized forms in later groups. Synthetic , as used by Agssiz, is nearly synonymous.

Syn. -- Extensive; wide; large; full; compendious.

Comprehensively <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen"sive*ly , adv. In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.

Comprehensiveness <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen"sive*ness , n. The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.

Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.

Comprehensor <Xpage=292>

Com`pre*hen"sor (?) , n. One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge. [Obs.]

When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor , farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

Compress <Xpage=292>

Com*press" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compressed (?) ; p. pr & vb. n. Compressing .] [L. compressus , p. p. of comprimere to compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.] 1. To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water .

Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster.

The same strength of expression, though more compressed , runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth.

2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.]

Pope.

Syn. -- To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.

Compress <Xpage=292>

Com"press (?) , n. [F. compresse .] (Surg.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

Compressed <Xpage=292>

Com*pressed" (?) , a. 1. Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.

2. (Bot.) Flattened lengthwise.

Compessed air engine , an engine operated by the elastic force of compressed air.

Compressibility <Xpage=292>

Com*press`i*bil"i*ty (?) , n. [Cf. F. compressibilit\'82 .] The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids .

Compressible <Xpage=292>

Com*press"i*ble (?) , a. [Cf. F. compressible .] Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

Compressibleness <Xpage=292>

Com*press"ible*ness , n. The quality of being compressible; compressibility.

Compression <Xpage=292>

Com*pres"sion (?) , n. [L. compressio : cf. F. compression .] The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. " Compression of thought."

Johnson.

Compressive <Xpage=292>

Com*press"ive (?) , a. [Cf. F. compressif .] Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force .

Compressor <Xpage=292>

Com*press"or (?) , n. [L.] Anything which serves to compress ; as: (a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts. (b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part. (c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium . (d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor.

Compressure <Xpage=292>

Com*pres"sure (?; 135) , n. Compression.

Comprint <Xpage=292>

Com*print" (?) , v. t. & i. 1. To print together.

2. (O. Eng. Law) To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another.

E. Phillips.

Comprint <Xpage=292>

Com"print (?) , n. (O. Eng. Law) The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.

Comprisal <Xpage=292>

Com*pris"al (?) , n. The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome.

A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.

Comprise <Xpage=292>

Com*prise" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Comprised (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Comprising .] [From F. compris , comprise , p. p. of comprendre , L. comprehendere . See Comprehend .] To comprehend; to include.

Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker.

Friendship does two souls in one comprise . Roscommon.

Syn. -- To embrace; include; comprehend; contain; encircle; inclose; involve; imply.

Comprobate <Xpage=292>

Com"pro*bate (?) , v. i. [L. comprobatus , p. p. of comprobare , to approve wholly.] To agree; to concur. [Obs.]

Sir T. Elyot.

Comprobation <Xpage=292>

Com`pro*ba"tion (?) , n. [L. comprobatio .] 1. Joint attestation; proof. [Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

2. Approbation. [Obs.]

Foxe.

Compromise <Xpage=292>

Com"pro*mise (?) , n. [F. compromis , fr. L. compromissum a mutual promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to make such a promise; com- + promittere to promise. See Promise .] 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. [Obs.]

Burrill.

2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.

But basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. Shak.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Burke.

An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. Hallam.

3. A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right .