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The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. [Obs.] Bacon.

A making ready; provision. [Obs.]

Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.

The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott.

Making complete. [R.] J. Harris.

omposition. Sir I. Newton. Composition cloth, a kind of clotch covered with a preparation making it waterproof. -- Composition deed, an agreement for composition between a debtor and several creditors. -- Composition plane (Crystallog.), the plane by which the two individuals of a twin crystal are united in their res…

A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum.

The act of making concave.

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [Obs.] Beaumont.

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. [R.] Dr. H. More.

erform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

me specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles. Sir R. Baker. A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of reserving the federal system, and correcting its de…

The act of making conventional.

which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse…

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.