Compound
(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. Componé.]
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.
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.
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
(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, 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
