*compound*

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the word “bishopric” was first made, it was made as a compound. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Every definite chemical compound always contains the same elements, united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same internal arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Binary compound (Chem.). See under Binary. --
Carbon compounds (Chem.). See under Carbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Malay kompung a village. ] In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. [ 1913 Webster ]

Only compound me with forgotten dust. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To compose; to constitute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His pomp and all what state compounds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be compounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. combined into or constituting a chemical compound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises. “Compounders in politics.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religious houses made compounders
For the horrid actions of their founders. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [ Eng. ] A. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of combining things.
Syn. -- combination, combining. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decompounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Decompounding. ] [ Pref. de- (intens. in sense 1) + compound, v. t. ] 1. To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose. [ 1913 Webster ]

It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. de- (intens.) + compound, a. ] 1. Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A decomposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being decompounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) a compound containing the covalent iodine radical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]