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‖Com"pound (kŏm"pound), n. [Malay kompung a village.] In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
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Com*pound" (kŏm*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. Componé.] 1. To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
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Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort.
Sir W. Scott.
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2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
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We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.
Addison.
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3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
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Only compound me with forgotten dust.
Shak.
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4. To compose; to constitute. [Obs.]
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His pomp and all what state compounds.
Shak.
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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.
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I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
Shak.
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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.
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Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year.
Shak.
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They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
Clarendon.
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Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
R. Carew.
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Compound for sins they are inclined to
By damning those they have no mind to.
Hudibras.
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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.
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Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
I. Watts.
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Compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, 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.
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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.
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Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun.
Goldsmith.
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When the word “bishopric” was first made, it was made as a compound.
Earle.
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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.
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&hand_; Every definite chemical compound always contains the same elements, united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same internal arrangement.
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Binary compound (Chem.). See under Binary. -- Carbon compounds (Chem.). See under Carbon.
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