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Compound \Com"pound\ (k[o^]m"pound), n. [Malay kompung a
village.]
In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house,
outbuildings, etc.
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Compound \Com*pound"\ (k[o^]m*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['e]}.]
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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Compound \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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Compound \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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Compound \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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Note: 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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