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Compound
COMPOUND, v.t.
1. To mix or unite two or more ingredients in one mass or body; as, to compound drugs.
Whoever compoundeth any like it--shall be cut off from his people. Exo 30.
2. To unite or combine.
We have the power of altering and compounding images into all the varieties of picture.
3. To compose; to constitute.
4. In grammar, to unite two or more words; to form one word of two or more.
5. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; as a difference or controversy.
6. To pay by agreement; to discharge, as a debt, by paying a part, or giving an equivalent different from that stipulated or required; as, to compound debts.
But we now use, more generally, to compound with.
To compound felony, is for a person robbed to take the goods again, or other compensation, upon an agreement not to prosecute the thief or robber. This offense is, by the laws of England, punishable by fine and imprisonment.
COMPOUND, v.i.
1. To agree upon concession; to come to terms of agreement, by abating something of the first demand; followed by for before the thing accepted or remitted.
They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the tower.
2. To bargain in the lump; to agree; followed by with.
Compound with this fellow by the year.
3. To come to terms, by granting something on each side; to agree.
Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen for thirty pounds.
Paracelsus and his admirers have compounded with the Galenists, and brought into practice a mixed use of chimical medicines.
4. To settle with a creditor by agreement, and discharge a debt by paying a part of its amount; or to make an agreement to pay a debt by means or in a manner different from that stipulated or required by law. A bankrupt may compound with his creditors for ten shillings on the pound, or fifty cents on the dollar. A man may compound with a parson to pay a sum of money in lieu of tithes.
To compound with a felon, is to take the goods stolen, or other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute him.
COMPOUND, a.
1. Composed of two or more ingredients.
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
2. In grammar, composed of two or more words. Ink-stand, writing-desk, careless-ness, are compound words.
3. In botany, a compound flower is a species of aggregate flower, containing several florets, inclosed in a common perianth, on a common receptacle, with the anthers connected in a cylinder, as in the sunflower and dandelion.
A compound stem is one that divides into branches.
A compound leaf connects several leaflets in one petiole, called a common petiole.
A compound raceme is composed of several racemules or small racemes.
A compound spike is composed of several spicules or spikelets.
A compound corymb is formed of several small corymbs.
A compound umbel is one which has all its rays or peduncles bearing umbellules or small umbels at the top.
A compound fructification consists of several confluent florets; opposed to simple.
4. Compound interest, is interest upon interest; when the interest of a sum is added to the principal, and then bears interest; or when the interest of a sum is put upon interest.
5. Compound motion, is that which is effected by two or more conspiring powers, acting in different but not in opposite directions.
6. Compound number, is that which may be divided by some other number besides unity, without a remainder; as 18, which may be divided by 2, 6 and 9.
7. Compound ratio, is that which the product of the antecedents of two or more ratios has to the product of their consequents. Thus 6 to 72 is in a ratio compounded of 2 to 6, and of 3 to 12.
8. Compound quantities, in algebra, are such as are joined by the signs + and - plus and minus, and expressed by more letters than one, or by the same letters unequally repeated. Thus a+b-c, and bb-b, are compound quantities.
9. Compound larceny, is that which is accompanied with the aggravation of taking goods from ones house or person.
COMPOUND, n. A mass or body formed by the union or mixture of two or more ingredients or different substances; the result of composition.
Man is a compound of flesh and spirit.
Mortar is a compound of lime, sand and water.
compound appears in definitions for these words:
Abridge Acid Acidule Additament Addition Adfected Adjutor Admiration Admixtion Adore Affinity After Aggregate Air Albeit Alkali Alkermes Alligation Alloy Allspice Always Amalgam Amalgamate Amalgamating Amygdaloid Analysis Analytic Analyze Anatocism Angled Antimoniate Antimonite Appetence Archipelago Arsenic Arum Assassins Assay Aster Atone Base Because Beware Bezoardic Biformed Bimedial Bisdiapason Bituminous Blow-pipe Boracic Bottomed Break Brick Bronz By Cadmean Calin Camel-backed Camphorate Canon Carbonate Carbureted Cetate Chancellor Characteristic Chlorate Chlorid Chloro-carbonic Chromate Cobalt Cole Columbate Combination Commixtion Commixture Compassion Complexedness Component Compose Composition Compound Compoundable Compounder Compromise Con Concrete Conjunction Contra Contumely Corollet Corollule Corona Corpuscle Cyanogen Dame Daphnate Decomplex Decomposite Decompound Decompounded Decompounding Diapason Discoidal Discus Disdiapason Disk Disproportion Dizen Double-tongued Drug Druggist Earth Eddish Electre Element Elixir Emergence Engine Enhance Etymology Exile Expedite Explore Farewell Farthingale Feoff Ferro-cyanate Ferro-prussiate Ferro-silicate Ferro-silicic Feverfew Fibrin Find Flammation Flesh Flosculous Fluminating Fluoborate Fluoboric Fluosilicate Foliole For Force Fore Fracture Franklinite Fulcrum Fulsome Fungate G Gelatin Geology Glucin Good-fellow Govern Grafting Granitel Granitic Hap He Herewith Hest Heterogeneous Hickup Horror Hush Hydrate Hydrochlorate Hydrochloric Hydrofluate Hydroguret Hydrogureted Hydroxanthate Hyphen Hypophosphite Hyposulphate Hyposulphite Ieland Ill Im Impede Impletion Ingredient Instead Interest Into Iodate Iodic Iodide Iodous Ioduret Island Isomorphism Isomorphous J Judge Jurymast Kerchief Kyanogen Lampiate Larceny Leaflet Ligulate Liquidate Lithiate Lode-stone Love Lunisolar Man Manganesiate Mare Margarate Master Mate Medicine Menispermate Mere Meter Meterolite Midwife Mingle Mix Mixed Mixing Mixture Mode Molybdenum Montmartrite Myself Neutralize Never New Nitrous Noway Noways Obsolescent Ointment Oleate Olefiant Ore Organization Out Oxiodic Oxy-iodine Paint Part Party Pennant Percarbureted Perchlorate Perish Person Petalous Pharmacy Piety Pinnate Poise Poley Polypier Polypus Possess Potassium Pregnant Preparation Prodition Proliferous Proper Proportional Prussic Pudding Pulse Purpurate Put Putty Pyromalate Quantity Quick Raceme Radiate Radical Radius Raff Rally Ram Ray Resolution Resolve Rest Restore Reverence Rock Sal-alembroth Salino-terrene Salsoacid Salt Sarcocol Sealing-wax Seleniate Semitertian Sentence Separate Sequester Shire Side Sienite Silcia Silex Simple Single Singular Sized Soap Soever Soil Solicit Solution Sometime Sorbate Species Spiritedness Step-son Sterned Strong-hand Strontian Subhydrosulphuret Sulphite Superfluous Supra-decompound Syllabub Synthesis System Tangle Tartar Tellurate Temper Term Test Themselves Therewithal Theriac Though Tie To Treacle Treacle-water Treble Triphthong Tubulous Tutenag Type-metal Umbel Un Uncompounded Union Unite Universal Unto Usquebaugh Vantage Vitriolate Water Weather Welaway Whatsoever Winged Woman World Worm Wort Wright Xanthid Xanthide Xanthogene Yester Z
Abridge Acid Acidule Additament Addition Adfected Adjutor Admiration Admixtion Adore Affinity After Aggregate Air Albeit Alkali Alkermes Alligation Alloy Allspice Always Amalgam Amalgamate Amalgamating Amygdaloid Analysis Analytic Analyze Anatocism Angled Antimoniate Antimonite Appetence Archipelago Arsenic Arum Assassins Assay Aster Atone Base Because Beware Bezoardic Biformed Bimedial Bisdiapason Bituminous Blow-pipe Boracic Bottomed Break Brick Bronz By Cadmean Calin Camel-backed Camphorate Canon Carbonate Carbureted Cetate Chancellor Characteristic Chlorate Chlorid Chloro-carbonic Chromate Cobalt Cole Columbate Combination Commixtion Commixture Compassion Complexedness Component Compose Composition Compound Compoundable Compounder Compromise Con Concrete Conjunction Contra Contumely Corollet Corollule Corona Corpuscle Cyanogen Dame Daphnate Decomplex Decomposite Decompound Decompounded Decompounding Diapason Discoidal Discus Disdiapason Disk Disproportion Dizen Double-tongued Drug Druggist Earth Eddish Electre Element Elixir Emergence Engine Enhance Etymology Exile Expedite Explore Farewell Farthingale Feoff Ferro-cyanate Ferro-prussiate Ferro-silicate Ferro-silicic Feverfew Fibrin Find Flammation Flesh Flosculous Fluminating Fluoborate Fluoboric Fluosilicate Foliole For Force Fore Fracture Franklinite Fulcrum Fulsome Fungate G Gelatin Geology Glucin Good-fellow Govern Grafting Granitel Granitic Hap He Herewith Hest Heterogeneous Hickup Horror Hush Hydrate Hydrochlorate Hydrochloric Hydrofluate Hydroguret Hydrogureted Hydroxanthate Hyphen Hypophosphite Hyposulphate Hyposulphite Ieland Ill Im Impede Impletion Ingredient Instead Interest Into Iodate Iodic Iodide Iodous Ioduret Island Isomorphism Isomorphous J Judge Jurymast Kerchief Kyanogen Lampiate Larceny Leaflet Ligulate Liquidate Lithiate Lode-stone Love Lunisolar Man Manganesiate Mare Margarate Master Mate Medicine Menispermate Mere Meter Meterolite Midwife Mingle Mix Mixed Mixing Mixture Mode Molybdenum Montmartrite Myself Neutralize Never New Nitrous Noway Noways Obsolescent Ointment Oleate Olefiant Ore Organization Out Oxiodic Oxy-iodine Paint Part Party Pennant Percarbureted Perchlorate Perish Person Petalous Pharmacy Piety Pinnate Poise Poley Polypier Polypus Possess Potassium Pregnant Preparation Prodition Proliferous Proper Proportional Prussic Pudding Pulse Purpurate Put Putty Pyromalate Quantity Quick Raceme Radiate Radical Radius Raff Rally Ram Ray Resolution Resolve Rest Restore Reverence Rock Sal-alembroth Salino-terrene Salsoacid Salt Sarcocol Sealing-wax Seleniate Semitertian Sentence Separate Sequester Shire Side Sienite Silcia Silex Simple Single Singular Sized Soap Soever Soil Solicit Solution Sometime Sorbate Species Spiritedness Step-son Sterned Strong-hand Strontian Subhydrosulphuret Sulphite Superfluous Supra-decompound Syllabub Synthesis System Tangle Tartar Tellurate Temper Term Test Themselves Therewithal Theriac Though Tie To Treacle Treacle-water Treble Triphthong Tubulous Tutenag Type-metal Umbel Un Uncompounded Union Unite Universal Unto Usquebaugh Vantage Vitriolate Water Weather Welaway Whatsoever Winged Woman World Worm Wort Wright Xanthid Xanthide Xanthogene Yester Z
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