COMPOUND, v.t.

1. Composed of two or more ingredients. Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. – Watts.
2. In grammar, composed of two or more words. Ink-stand, writing-desk, carelessness, 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. – Martyn. Harris. 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. – Bailey.
9. Compound larceny, is that which is accompanied with the aggravation of taking goods from one's house or person. – Blackstone.
10. Compound time, in music, is when two or more measures are joined in one, as 3/8 and 6/8.

A mass or body formed by the union or mixture of two or more ingredients or different substances; the result of composition. Mortar is a compound of lime, sand and water. Man is a compound of flesh and spirit. – South.

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. – Clarendon.
2. To bargain in the lump; to agree; followed by with. Compound with this fellow by the year. – Shak.
3. To come to terms, by granting something on each side; to agree. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen for thirty pounds. – Carew. Paracelsus and his admirers have compounded with the Galenists, and brought into practice a mixed use of chimical medicines. – Temple.
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. [See Composition, No. 9.] To compound with a felon, is to take the goods stolen, or other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute him. – Blackstone.

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. – Ex. xxx.
2. To unite or combine. We have the power of altering and compounding images into all the varieties of picture. – Addison.
3. To compose; to constitute. [Not used.] – Shak.
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. – Bacon. Shak. [In this sense we now use compose.]
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. – Gay. But we now use, more generally, to compound with. [See the verb intransitive.] 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 law of England, punishable by fine and imprisonment. – Blackstone.

1. In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

   Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun.
   Goldsmith.

   When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound.
   Earle.

5. 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 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.
   
   

   * Every definite chemical compound always contains the same elements, united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same internal arrangement.

   Binary compound (Chem.). See under Binary. -- Carbon compounds (Chem.). See under Carbon.

8. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
   
   

   Only compound me with forgotten dust.
   Shak.

9. To compose; to constitute.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   His pomp and all what state compounds.
   Shak.

10. 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.